At least 15 people have died in the last 12 days of what staff members at the Charlwell House Health & Rehabilitation Center in Norwood believe are infections caused by the coronavirus, the Boston Globe reported on Thursday.

According to the Globe, a co-owner of the facility said that seven residents who died had tested positive for the virus, but due to underlying health conditions, COVID-19 was listed as the official cause of death for only three of the residents. Chris Roberts, the vice president of operations at the health and rehabilitation center, said the other eight recent people who died had not been tested for the coronavirus. Their deaths were also connected to pre-existing conditions, he told the newspaper.

The news comes the same day as Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus announcing the deaths of three people three people at the Jewish Healthcare Center in Worcester. Augustus said the three deaths were among 16 people that tested positive for the virus.

Those who tested positive for the virus, Augustus said, were asymptomatic.

“Everything that we know, it’s an unfortunate situation where people that don’t know they have it, because they are asymptomatic, expose other folks,” Augustus said. “When the first evidence that someone may have the disease, you do the testing, but you’re playing catchup at that point.”

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