The Army Reserve has known the army’s eighth death by COVID-19, a 48-year-old Kentucky reservist.
First-class Sergeant Mike A. Markins of Vine Grove died Thursday at Baptist Health Hardin Hospital in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with coVID-19 headaches, Army Reserve Spokesman Simon Flake said Tuesday.
Markins’ death was first noted in the Pentagon update Monday of his online chart of COVID-19 instances similar to the department, but his identity was not revealed until Tuesday.
Markins first served in the Active Air Force from 1990 to 1997, then joined the Army Reserve in 2000, Flake said.
He has also been a full-time civilian worker for the Army Reserve since 2001, as an army technician, Flake added.
His last position in the Army Reserve as a mechanical maintenance manager in the 100th Training Division (Head of Development), and his last position as an army technician as a repairman for heavy cellular devices at the 81st Preparation Division-63 device concentration site, according to the Both posts were located in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Markins is the fifth member of the army reserve to die from COVID-19. Two guards died from the virus.
So far, the Pentagon has reported only one coronavirus death through an active-duty person. First Navy captain Charles Robert Thacker Jr. , a 41-year-old air force commander, died in April after being one of more than 1,000 sailors on the aircraft. usS carrier Theodore Roosevelt that virus.
On Monday, the Pentagon reported a total of 65,657 COVID-19s similar to the department.
This includes 45,246 cases among army personnel, of whom 30,450 have recovered and 613 have been hospitalized by the pandemic.
There were 10,109 instances among civilians, 6,034 instances between dependents and 4,268 instances between contractors. According to Monday’s figures, there were 59 civilian deaths, 7 deaths and 22 contractor deaths.
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