Nine nuns have died in just over a month from causes related to COVID-19 in a convent in upstate New York, district officials say
Albany County is aware of the deaths among St. Joseph of Carondelet’s sisters in Latham, county spokesman Mary Rozak said in an emailed statement to the Times Union on behalf of Elizabeth Whalen, county health commissioner .
“Four of the deaths related to the congregation had been reported earlier this month by the hospitals,” Whalen said in the statement. “The other five were not reported to the Albany County Department of Health by the facility.”
WNYT-TV reported on Dec. 11 that 22 sisters tested positive for the coronavirus at St. Joseph’s.
According to the website, the monastery is home to 140 nuns.
A spokesman for the monastery, Sister Mary Rose Noonan, was not ready to make a statement, said Mary DeTurris Poust, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.