Moorestown Man, 93, Dies Of Coronavirus

MOORESTOWN, NJ — A 93-year-old Moorestown man has died after testing positive for the coronavirus, Burlington County officials announced.

He is the 66th Moorestown resident who has died after testing positive for the virus. As of Friday morning, 818 Moorestown residents have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began.

Countywide, there have been 18,322 cases, 551 confirmed deaths and 58 probable deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

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On Thursday, the first shipment of the coronavirus vaccine arrived in Burlington County. Five employees at Deborah Heart and Lung Center received the vaccine simultaneously, nj.com reports.

The shipment arrived following a brief delay due to the nor’easter that hit the state on Wednesday. Deborah is one of 35 New Jersey hospitals that received the vaccination after the first six hospitals vaccinated employees on Tuesday. Read more here: Small Delay Expected In Delivery Of COVID Vaccine To NJ Hospitals

Deaths in Moorestown have involved an 82-year-old man, an 87-year-old woman, a 71-year-old woman, at an 86-year-old man, a 93-year-old woman, an 82-year-old woman, a 90-year-old man, a 92-year-old woman, a 75-year-old woman, a 101-year-old woman, a 60-year-old woman, a 100-year-old woman, an 88-year-old woman, a 75-year-old man, a 97-year-old woman a 77-year-old man, a 76-year-old man, a 96-year-old woman, a 79-year-old woman, an 88-year-old man, 82-year-old woman, an 89-year-old woman, an 84-year-old woman, an 82-year-old man, an 86-year-old man, an 88-year-old man, an 84-year-old woman, a 93-year-old-man, a 73-year-old-man, an 87-year-old man, a 97-year-old woman, a 76-year-old man, an 86-year-old woman, an 85-year-old woman a 93-year-old woman, a 68-year-old man, a 91-year-old man, a 97-year-old man, a 79-year-old woman, a 73-year-old woman, a 77-year-old woman, a 74-year-old man, 96-year-old man, a 100-year-old man, an 84-year-old man, a 96-year-old woman, an 83-year-old man, a 95-year-old man, a 95-year-old woman, a 95-year-old man and a 75-year-old woman, a 94-year-old woman, an 87-year-old woman, a 66-year-old man, a 97-year-old woman and, 82-year-old man, a 79-year-old woman, an 89-year-old woman and a 90-year-old woman. Read more here: Moorestown Sees 5 More Coronavirus Deaths

Burlington County is actively engaged in contact tracing positive coronavirus cases. The focus is on close contacts, defined as closer than 6 feet for more than 10 minutes, household contacts and those that work in high risk settings such as healthcare workers and long term care facilities. Read more here: 7 More Coronavirus-Related Deaths In Moorestown

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