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Friday, March 29, 2024

Inmate dies of COVID-19 at Bushnell prison where 112 cases have been reported

The death of one inmate has been reported at the Sumter Correctional Institution as the prison continues to battle an outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus.

It’s unclear when the inmate died, but a report released Friday morning shows that the Bushnell facility is one of only two state prisons to report deaths associated with COVID-19. The other is the Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton, where six inmates have died as a result of the virus.

On Friday, the Bushnell facility was reporting 99 cases among inmates and another 13 among staff members. Three inmates were in medical isolation and another 912 were in medical quarantine.

Meanwhile, only one new case of COVID-19 was reported in the tri-county area on Friday. That was in Sumter County, where the total number of cases now stands at 239. Seventy of those are in The Villages and all of the cases being reported in Bushnell are at the prison. Wildwood is reporting nine cases, Oxford has two and the Lady Lake portion of the county has seven confirmed positive COVID-19 results.

Lake County remained at 237 cases on Friday, with the vast majority – 81 – being in Clermont. Thirty-seven cases have been reported in Leesburg, 10 have been identified in Lady Lake and seven are in The Villages portion of the county.

Marion County is holding steady at 202 cases. Of those, 143 are in Ocala, 24 are in Summerfield, six are in Belleview and at least one is in The Villages. It’s unclear if any of the Summerfield cases are in the retirement communities of Del Webb Spruce Creek, Stonecrest or Spruce Creek South, as the Florida Department of Health doesn’t release those exact statistics.

All told, Florida is reporting 39,199 COVID-19 cases, an increase of 371 in a 24-hour period. Of those overall cases, 38,172 are Sunshine State residents. There have been 1,669 deaths and 6,929 people have been hospitalized.