Colorado sees first coronavirus death of someone under 40 as statewide toll reaches 51
More than 2,600 people now have tested positive in Colorado and 414 are hospitalized
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis during his press conference updating the state’s response to the coronavirus outbreak at the Colorado State Emergency Operations Center on Friday, March 27, 2020.
By SHELLY BRADBURY |
sbradbury@denverpost.com and ALEXANDER BURNESS |
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PUBLISHED: March 30, 2020 at 12:53 p.m. | UPDATED: March 30, 2020 at 1:50 p.m.
The first person under the age of 40 in Colorado has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, Gov. Jared Polis announced Monday during a mid-day press conference.
“Again showing the severity of this virus for people of all ages,” he said, before emphasizing that about 80% of COVID-19 of cases do not require hospitalization and will self-resolve.
Polis announced new statewide numbers — a partial count, since full data is usually made public around 4 p.m. each day — and said 51 people now have died in Colorado from complications of the new coronavirus. There are now 2,627 total confirmed cases of the virus in 47 of Colorado’s 64 counties, with 414 people having been hospitalized. A total of 15,364 people have now been tested.
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