California local health authorities announced today the death of the first immigrant detained in the United States with the emerging coronavirus, while the infection increased among the nearly 30,000 immigrants detained in the country.
The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency said a 57-year-old man who was being held at the Otay Mesa Center of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency had been taken to hospital at the end of April and died yesterday.
The media had previously reported that he had been identified by a member of the family of the deceased man. She said that the man, who is diabetic and left El Salvador with his mother and sisters in 1980, had been living in the Los Angeles area and had been detained since January.
The Utai Mesa facility, near the US-Mexico border, can hold up to 2,000 detainees and prisoners. The first case of Covid-19 disease, caused by the emerging coronavirus, was recorded at the end of March.
The center now has more cases of injury than any other detention center in the United States, with 132 cases, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.