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Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim
Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal Covid-19 Victim A fourth member of a New Jersey family connected to the state's first coronavirus fatality died Thursday. Vincent Fusco passed away at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, the same hospital where his mother, 73-year-old family matriarch Grace Fusco, died of the virus a day earlier. His brother, Carmine Fusco, died hours before their mother at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Pennsylvania near his home in Bath -- becoming that state's first COVID-19 fatality. Their sister, Rita Fusco-Jackson, died last Friday and later tested positive for the virus. Rita Fusco-Jackson became …

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COVID-19: State Coronavirus Cases Rise To 742 including 9 Deaths COVID-19: State Coronavirus Cases Rise To 742 including 9 Deaths
Covid-19: State Coronavirus Cases Rise To 742 including 9 Deaths New Jersey reported 318 new presumptive positive cases of coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the statewide total to 742. "We have expected these numbers,'' Gov. Phil Murphy said at a noon news conference. "These numbers will go into the many thousands."  Murphy attributed the increase to more testing around the state as well as community spread of the deadly virus. "There are sadly four additional casualties," Murphy said, bringing the total state fatalities to nine.  Eighty of the new positive cases came in Bergen County, bringing its COVID-19 total to 195. Middlesex County has …

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by Jon Craig