A postmortem test revealed an 80-year-Shelton man had the COVID-19 virus before he died, the Naugatuck Valley Health District reported Thursday.
“The Naugatuck Valley Health District is saddened to announce the first COVID-19 related death in the jurisdiction,” according to a prepared statement from the health district. “The deceased was a male in (his) 80s living in Shelton and was tested for the virus postmortem. We extend our sincerest condolences to the family of the individual. The health district does not have any more details related to this death.”
The health district did not provide any additional details about the man.
As of 3 p.m. Thursday (March 26), 31 people in the health district’s jurisdiction have tested positive for COVID-19. The total is up from 22 confirmed cases on Wednesday (March 25). Click here for previous days.
Here are the confirmed laboratory cases listed by the Naugatuck Valley Health District Thursday:
Ansonia: 3
Beacon Falls: 1
Derby: 2
Naugatuck: 6
Seymour: 5
Shelton: 14, and 1 fatality.
The sources for the information include: The Dr. Katherine A. Kelley State Public Health Laboratory, hospitals, and commercial laboratories.
The NVHD jurisdiction is the towns and cities listed above. Oxford falls under the jurisdiction of the Pomperaug Health District.
The state Department of Health is publishing town-by-town data at this website.
The image below repeats the lower Valley information, which is updated daily around 3 p.m. on this NVHD website: http://www.nvhd.org/covid19-data/
Some COVID-19 Resources
www.nvhd.org/coronaviruses/COVID-19
This article from The NY Times is titled “What You Can Do About Coronavirus Right Now.”
Also, Griffin Health is offering an information hotline at 203 – 204-1053 for patients, visitors, and community residents who have questions about COVID-19. Griffin caregivers will be available to answer questions Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Naugatuck Valley Health District is also releasing age-range data for people who test positive for COVID-19.
The image below was posted Thursday (March 26):
