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COVID-19 kills 23 people at an Alabama veterans nursing home

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP) This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

By Associated Press 2 min read

LEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) – About two dozen people have died at an Alabama veterans nursing home because of COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, the state said Tuesday.

The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement the 23 deaths occurred at the Bill Nichols State Veterans Home in Alexander City, located about 70 miles (115 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham in rural Tallapoosa County.

The state-owned facility has a capacity of 150 residents, and 91 have tested positive for the coronavirus, the agency said.

A worker at the veterans home who tested positive for the virus on March 30 wasn’t allowed to enter, the statement said, and the first resident tested positive nine days later. All residents were tested on April 18, and the home still has 41 active cases among the residents.

No residents at the state’s other veterans home in Bay Minette, Huntsville or Pell City have tested positive, the department said, but three workers at the Bay Minette facility contracted the illness.