Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon on Friday announced a bridge-loan program for county businesses impacted by the effects of the ongoing coronavirus business shutdowns. It’s designed to help companies that are applying to the U.S. Small Business Administration under its coronavirus-related emergency loan program but need money to tide them over until the federal funds arrive. (Eric Reinhardt / CNYBJ)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Three more Onondaga County residents have died from a coronavirus infection, bringing the county’s death toll from the disease to 29.
That’s according to Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon who on Tuesday announced the deaths to open his daily COVID-19 briefing at the Oncenter.
“Unfortunately, the grim reality of this virus is here, and it’s going to be with us for a while. And we’ve lost three individuals to death in our community,” said McMahon. “We’re all thinking and praying about those who we’ve lost.”
The deceased individuals include an African-American woman in her early 70s, a Caucasian woman in her 90s, and a man in his 50s “of another race,” all three of whom and had underlying medical conditions, according to McMahon.
The county executive also reported that Onondaga County now has 841 total cases of COVID-19, up by 22 from 819 on Monday. The number of active cases fell by 6 in the last day to 269, and the number of people who recovered rose by 25 to 543.
The county currently has 37 people in a hospital, down three from Monday. Of those hospitalized, eight are in critical condition, down two from Monday.
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