New Jersey reports 460 coronavirus deaths, highest single-day death toll
BY JUSTINE COLEMAN -
04/30/20 04:39 PM EDT
New Jersey reported its highest one-day death toll during the coronavirus pandemic so far, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Thursday.
Murphy reported “with the heaviest of hearts” 460 people died from the coronavirus on Wednesday in the state, surpassing Monday’s 402 fatalities. The boost brings the state’s total death toll from the virus to 7,228 people.
“The people we remember here every day are the faces of COVID-19,” he said. “They are not and they should never be seen as just numbers on a chart.”.
Virus death toll rises to 47 at Minnesota nursing home
Apr 30, 2020 Updated 21 min ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis nursing home said 47 residents have died from complications of COVID-19, the most at any long-term care facility in Minnesota.
St. Therese of New Hope also said 130 residents have tested positive for the coronavirus, while 65 staff members have shown symptoms or been exposed.
A review of death records by KARE-TV found North Ridge Health and Rehabilitation, also in New Hope, had the second-highest total of fatalities at a long-term care facility in Minnesota with at least 13.
A veterans home in Massachusetts where 70 people have died is the deadliest known coronavirus outbreak at a long-term care facility in the U.S.
Most of Minnesota’s 343 deaths have been in nursing homes. The St. Therese death toll would amount to nearly 15% of the 271 that occurred in nursing homes, according to the Star Tribune’s analysis of death records.
St. Therese, which has a 258-bed capacity, said all of its residents have been tested. Of those who have tested positive, about a third were asymptomatic, living with a roommate and unknowingly spread the virus.