According to The Weather Channel
A person in South Dakota died Tuesday after contracting COVID-19, as the number of cases in the United States neared 1,000.
South Dakota on Tuesday afternoon became the latest state to announce its first cases of the illness caused by the novel strain of coronavirus, with five cases there, according to the state’s health department. Gov. Kristi Noem said one person infected with the virus had died, but officials had not confirmed his cause of death, The Associated Press reported. The man, in his 60s, was from Pennington County in the western part of the state.
Earlier in the day, a nationwide lockdown began in Italy and New York’s governor established a containment zone around an area that appears to be the U.S.’s biggest cluster of cases of the coronavirus. The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, climbed above 118,000 Tuesday evening. At least 959 of those are in the U.S., which has also seen at least 28 deaths.