UPDATE: A 4th person in New Jersey has tested positive.

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Camden County health officials reported a “presumptive positive” case of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, making it the third such case in New Jersey as of Friday.

The person is identified as a male resident of Camden County in his 60s, who is hospitalized in stable condition at Jefferson Health in Cherry Hill, according to officials at the hospital and the Camden County health department. He has been hospitalized since Tuesday, according to Gov. Phil Murphy’s office.

The positive coronavirus result came from a sample that was tested by the state Department of Health at the New Jersey Public Health Environmental Laboratories (PHEL) and is now being submitted to the CDC for confirmatory testing.

The county’s health department is working with the state to determine who the man came into close contact with.

“Due to federal privacy laws, we cannot comment on the patient specifically, beyond saying this adult patient is hospitalized in isolation and is in stable condition,” a spokeswoman from Jefferson said.

There are no plans to move him at this time, county officials said.

Camden County Health and Human Services Department officials held a brief press conference Friday afternoon to address the case.

County officials said they were hosting a meeting Friday morning with school district officials when they were alerted by the state that the man had tested positive.

Information on the situation is “fluid” and “evolving,” Paschal Nwako, the Camden County Health Officer and Public Health Coordinator told reporters Friday. The state is leading the investigation into the man’s whereabouts and personal contacts previous to his hospitalization, he said. When more details become available, they will be made public, he said.

Officials said they are not recommending that schools close at this time. The risk of anyone in Camden County contracting coronavirus remains low, officials said.

Two other cases of presumptive positive coronavirus were identified in New Jersey this week.

On Wednesday officials announced the state’s first case, a 32-year-old Fort Lee man was hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center suffering from coronavirus symptoms. The man later tested positive for presumptive COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus infection.

New Jersey officials on Thursday announced the state’s second “presumptive positive” case of the coronavirus.

The second case, an Englewood resident who was treated at Englewood Health, has no known connection to the state’s first reported case, also in Bergen County, according to officials.

In a statement Thursday, the hospital said that patient was treated and released.

State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said any positive case of novel coronavirus is “concerning,” but added “most New Jersey residents are at very low risk of contracting” the virus.

Gov. Phil Murphy and other officials warned Monday that the virus was likely to spread to the state.

There are more than 93,000 cases worldwide and more than 3,100 deaths from COVID-19, mostly in China. The virus has infected more than 120 people in the U.S. and killed 11.

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