Nine nuns have died in just over a month from COVID-19 causes in a convent in New York State.
Albany County is aware of the deaths among the sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Latham, county spokeswoman Mary Rozak said in a statement sent to the Times Union on behalf of provincial health commissioner Elizabeth Whalen.
“Four of the deaths associated with the congregation were reported by hospitals earlier this month,” Whalen said in the statement. “The other five were not reported by the Albany County Department of Health.”
WNYT-TV reported on December 11 that 22 sisters tested positive for the coronavirus at St. Joseph’s.
According to the website, there are 140 nuns in the convent.
According to Mary DeTurris Poust, a spokeswoman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, a spokeswoman for the convent, Sister Mary Rose Noonan, was unwilling to issue a statement.