RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina prisoner with COVID-19 died over the weekend.
The Department of Public Safety announced on Monday that the unnamed male offender in his late 70s at Greene Correctional Institution died at a hospital on Saturday.
The department says he wasn’t vaccinated. Prisoners are encouraged but not required to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
An initial review shows COVID-19 was likely the cause of death or at least a contributing factor.
The death marked the first offender death related to the virus since May.
Statewide there were over 19,600 positive COVID-19 cases reported on Saturday.
That marked the third record one-day increase for the pandemic last week.
