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An 81-year-old man has died from COVID-19, the third person on the island to die from the respiratory disease.

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said the man died at Guam Memorial Hospital at 11:58 a.m. Wednesday. He was admitted to the hospital on March 26.

The man had multiple co-morbidities, Leon Guerrero said.

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As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, Guam had 69 COVID-19 cases, three deaths and seven who have recovered.

Five of the people who tested positive are Guam Memorial Hospital workers, according to hospital Administrator Lillian Perez-Posadas.

"They are at home," she said, in isolation.

Ann Pobutsky, territorial epidemiologist, said the Department of Public Health and Social Services has conducted 485 tests, including 47 that were rerun because of inconclusive results.

Pobutsky said of the 69 people who have tested positive, 64% were over the age of 50, and of those, about a third were in their 60s.

“That’s because people in those age ranges tend to have more chronic diseases," Pobutsky said. "They are more at risk for lung infections and so on.”

There are two quarantine sites with 221 patients in 136 rooms. There are 360 rooms available.