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The COVID-19 outbreak at the Jefferson City Manor nursing home has continued to grow.
As of Thursday, JMS Senior Living - the company that owns Jefferson City Manor - reported on its website that 51 of the home's 63 residents were infected with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Thirty-five staff at the nursing home had also tested positive - of whom 34 had active cases and were not working.
The company also reported there were three active infection clusters at the facility - a cluster being defined as "whenever three or more residents or staff with a new onset of respiratory symptoms occur within 72 hours of each other."
There had been seven clusters in total.
JMS Senior Living owns nine facilities, and all of the cases among its residents are at Jefferson City Manor, as well as most of the company's 47 staff cases - 36 of which were active, meaning Jefferson City Manor has almost all of those cases.
The company reported Monday that 39 residents and 28 employees at the facility had tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week. Three of those residents had died, and one staff member was hospitalized.
JMS Senior Living said the three residents who had died did so because underlying causes. Cole County Health Department Director Kristi Campbell later told the News Tribune that determinations about cause of death and diagnoses are made by a patient's physician or hospital.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported the first positive test had been received Aug. 9.