HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - Two northern New Jersey residents who have tested positive for the new coronavirus went to the same health care facility before they were eventually hospitalized this week, officials said Friday.
Bergen County Executive James Tedesco declined to identify the facility, which is in Bergen County, except to say that it is not an urgent care facility. Tedesco said the names of workers and patients who were at the facility when the two patients visited have been given to the state health department.
The facility remains open, Tedesco said.
Through a spokeswoman, the state health department said Friday it is “in the process of identifying healthcare, household, and other close contacts of these cases” to assess their risk of exposure and determine next steps, including self-quarantining.
Two cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Bergen County this week. One, a man in his early 30s, is hospitalized in at Hackensack University Medical Center. Officials said the man, who lives with family in New York City but has an apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey, felt ill Monday night and visited the facility before being hospitalized.
The second patient, a woman from Englewood, was released from Englewood Hospital Thursday and is in isolation at home, Tedesco said. She also had visited the unnamed facility Monday.
State officials identified a third and fourth case on Friday: a man in his 60s who is hospitalized at Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital in Camden County, and a man in his 50s hospitalized at Englewood Hospital in Bergen County. No other details on these cases has been released.
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