Coronavirus-infected service members continue to increase as first military death announced

Published March 31, 2020 11:30pm ET



The Pentagon reported its largest single increase in a day of coronavirus infections with 161 new cases, while the New Jersey National Guard reported the death of a U.S. Army Medical Command member.

“I am deeply saddened by the COVID-19-related death of Army Capt. Douglas Linn Hickok, a physician assistant who was a New Jersey National Guardsman,” said Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau in a statement released Tuesday.

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