Four Test Positive For COVID-19 At Arlington Retirement Home

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ARLINGTON (1080 KRLD) - Four people at a retirement home in Arlington where a man died from the Coronavirus have now  been diagnosed with the disease. 

The elderly resident of the Texas Masonic Retirement Center died on March 15th, and tests later revealed that he had the coronavirus. 

He was the first, and still only, Coronavirus fatality in Tarrant County.

Officials now say four other people at the facility tested positive, and it's a mix of residents and employees.  In all, more than 200 people were tested. 

The residents who tested positive are now in isolation.  The employees who tested positive are staying at home. They are said to be improving.