Second COVID-19 death in Jefferson County

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A second person in Jefferson County has died from COVID-19, according to public health officials.

Details on the second fatality to the coronavirus were not immediately available.

Jefferson County's first reported death due to COVID-19 was reported in late November.

In announcing the first death in a Nov. 25 email, Jefferson County Public Health Officer Dr. Tom Locke said the woman who had died from the virus was in her 90s, was chronically ill and had been receiving hospice care.

County health officials reported Friday that 253 coronavirus infections have been confirmed in Jefferson County since the start of the pandemic.