UPDATE: New Jersey coronavirus cases spike to at least 427 with 5 deaths. 162 new positive tests announced.

The first patient to die from coronavirus in Pennsylvania was a 55-year-old horse racing trainer from New Jersey, according to family.

Carmine Fusco, who was being treated in Northampton County, is the second person from one New Jersey family to have died after being infected with the coronavirus, the family’s attorney confirmed Wednesday.

Fusco died Wednesday morning, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, a cousin and the lawyer representing the Fusco family, confirmed to NJ Advance Media. His sister Rita-Fusco Jackson died last Friday and then later tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the state’s second victim.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported the first death from coronavirus in Pennsylvania was a Northampton County patient. The state did not release the identity of the deceased. However, Northampton County as of Wednesday afternoon only had one confirmed case.

Family members say multiple other relatives remain in critical condition.

The deaths of Fusco and Fusco-Jackson are connected to the death of John Brennan, a horse trainer who lived in Little Ferry. Brennan was the first New Jersey resident to die after testing positive for COVID-19.

Fusco was one of six members of the same family hospitalized for coronavirus after they attended a family gathering. He was hospitalized at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem Township, but was later transferred to St. Luke’s flagship campus in Fountain Hill, where he died.

Nineteen other family members, including spouses and children, have also been tested, according to Elizabeth Fusco, a sibling who is not hospitalized said Tuesday.

“This has been devastating for all of us,” Elizabeth Fusco, 42, of Freehold said Tuesday before her brother died. “Our hearts are broken over losing our sister, Rita. We just need help in saving our family members with life-saving medication.”

Fusco-Jackson, who died Thursday, was one of 11 children, according to her sister. She was both a parishioner and a teacher in the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine confirmation program, the Freehold church said.

Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, of Freehold, died on Friday, March 13, 2020, and then later tested positive for coronavirus.

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