Moorestown Woman, 71, Dies Due To Coronavirus

MOORESTOWN, NJ — A 71-year-old Moorestown woman has died after testing positive for the coronavirus, Burlington County officials announced Monday night.

She is the 67th Moorestown resident to die after testing positive for the virus, according to numbers provided by the Burlington County Health Department.

For the period of Dec. 19-21, 24 new cases of the coronavirus were identified among Moorestown residents. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 851 Moorestown residents have tested positive for the coronavirus.

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Countywide, 10 deaths were reported for that same period, including five on Monday. Four were reported on Sunday, and one was reported on Saturday.

Over the same period, 727 new cases were reported countywide, 391 on Sunday. Another 176 were reported on Saturday, and 160 cases were reported on Sunday.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 19,242 cases of the coronavirus, 566 confirmed deaths and 58 probable deaths.

Deaths in Moorestown have involved a 93-year-old man, 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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