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A Market Basket employee has died after battling COVID-19, store officials say

1/6/2012 Boston, MA Melissa Shaw (cq), left, a personal trainer at Boston Sports Club training Sonia Mazzitelli (cq) at the Brookline Avenue Club on Friday January 6, 2011. Mazzitelli hired a personal trainer to help her lose weight and this is her first session with Shaw. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) slug: 08gym section: metro Reporter: Billy Baker

Boston Sports Clubs says it has no plans to offer refunds while closed. Now they're facing a lawsuit.

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, of West Springfield, Mass., stands during his arraignment in district court in Springfield, Mass.

Lawyers list drugs in driver's system at time of New Hampshire motorcycle deaths

On Twitter, almost 60 percent of false claims about coronavirus remain online - without a warning label April 7, 2020 | 8:14 PM

Congresswoman Lori Trahan and her daughter Grace, 9, during a children's town hall.

'We figured a lot of kids have questions' April 7, 2020 | 6:20 PM

Mark Makela

He spent 24 years in prison. He came out to a new kind of confinement. April 7, 2020 | 6:07 PM

Quincy, Ma-March 24, 2020-An over 60 year old shopper gets 6AM access to the Stop and Shop on Newport Ave.

Grocery shopping

Here are the top 10 items people bought at Stop & Shop during March April 7, 2020 | 5:51 PM

Stop and Shop one way sign

Stop & Shop is making aisles one-way only at all stores April 7, 2020 | 4:53 PM

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2019, file photo, acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly testifies during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee about about ongoing reports of substandard housing conditions in Washington, on Capitol Hill. Modly says the captain of the COVID-stricken aircraft carrier who was fired last week had betrayed his service and may have been “too naive or too stupid” to be commanding officer of the ship. Officials are confirming that Modly made the comments Sunday, April 5, 2020, to the ship's crew in Guam. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Acting Navy boss submits resignation amid coronavirus uproar April 7, 2020 | 4:30 PM

Boston-02/12/20 Attorney General Maura Healey held a news conference to discuss a lawsuit against JUUL electronic cigarettes as she was flanked by student anti-vaping activists. Images from JUUL ads hang above her. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

Read the letter Maura Healey wrote to the CEO of Boston Sports Clubs April 7, 2020 | 3:24 PM

COVID-19 test samples safe after multi-vehicle crash on Route 195, police say April 7, 2020 | 2:55 PM

Mnuchin: additional $250 billion sought for small businesses April 7, 2020 | 2:33 PM

Watch: Charlie Baker's coronavirus update April 7, 2020 | 2:23 PM

Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins

DA Rollins pushing for accused murderer to be returned to jail following his release Monday April 7, 2020 | 2:07 PM

REVERE, MA - 1/15/2019:COOL MORNING .... No music today by the bandstand at Revere Beach with chilly weather early in the morning in January. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC stand alone photo

Police: Body washed ashore on Revere Beach April 7, 2020 | 1:48 PM

A man feared his longtime girlfriend had COVID-19, which she didn't. They died in a murder-suicide, police say. April 7, 2020 | 1:15 PM

BOSTON MA. APRIL 2: Mayor Marty Walsh, with Boston Police Commissioner William Gross, speaks during a media availability to discuss updates relating to COVID-19 on April 2, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Nancy Lane/Pool)

Watch: Marty Walsh's coronavirus update April 7, 2020 | 12:51 PM

A 32-year-old died in a Randolph crash. Now police want to know more about a mattress found in the roadway. April 7, 2020 | 12:02 PM

A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment pauses after wheeling a body to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

'A lot of pain.' New York has biggest 1-day jump in virus deaths April 7, 2020 | 11:30 AM

Shoppers wait in line as customer capacity is limited due to the virus outbreak at the Market Basket store in Salem, N.H., Friday, April 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Man allegedly exposes himself, urinates outside local Market Basket April 7, 2020 | 11:09 AM

Bridget McDonald, right, receives a ballot from poll worker Patty Piek-Groth on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at the Janesville Mall in Janesville, Wis. Hundreds of voters in Wisconsin are waiting in line to cast ballots at polling places for the state's presidential primary election, ignoring a stay-at-home order over the coronavirus threat. 9Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)

Wisconsin election fight heralds a national battle over virus-era voting April 7, 2020 | 10:25 AM

A healthcare worker is silhouetted against the window during a shift in an intensive care unit (ICU) at the General University Hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 are treated in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

At least half of COVID-19 patients on ventilators don't make it April 7, 2020 | 9:45 AM

A Passover Seder at a home in Jamaica Pond in 2013.

HOLIDAYS & COVID-19

'Life will be better at another point ... We need to remember the history.' April 7, 2020 | 9:34 AM

In this April 2, 2020, frame from a Zoom video, the Rev. Laura Everett in Boston delivers a sermon for Boston’s First Baptist Church. As Everett delivered a previous sermon, a user who had seen the church service advertised entered the video conferencing session and shouted homophobic and racist slurs. Everett said she had tweeted the link to the sermon because she wanted “the doors of the church to be open to every weary soul who is looking for a word of comfort.” (The Rev. Laura E. Everett via AP)

Massachusetts schools, churches have been targeted by hackers on Zoom April 7, 2020 | 9:34 AM

Kate Mattes.

Owner of beloved Cambridge bookstore dead at 73 April 7, 2020 | 9:25 AM

Jeenah Moon

Peloton is suspending live classes after an employee tested positive for coronavirus April 7, 2020 | 9:01 AM

Maeve Fahey Kennedy Townsend McKean, 41, and her son, 8-year-old Gideon, are presumed dead after going missing on the Chesapeake Bay Thursday.

Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean

Body of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's daughter recovered April 6, 2020 | 9:25 PM

Amy Setchell, at right, program director of the respiratory therapy program at Madison Area Technical College, and Chris Becker, director of clinical education of the respiratory therapy program at MATC, load ventilators, that the school is lending due to coronavirus to SSM Health, along with other area hospitals, into a truck outside the college's Health Education Building in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Massachusetts has asked for 1,700 ventilators for the COVID-19 surge. Only a fraction have arrived. April 6, 2020 | 7:21 PM

An office converted into a bedroom for a National Grid employee.

Some National Grid workers haven't been home in weeks. They've volunteered to live at work. April 6, 2020 | 6:47 PM

Healthcare workers wearing protective suits attend to COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Intensive Unit Care (ICU) of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona on April 6, 2020. - Spain declared a fourth consecutive drop in the number of coronavirus-related deaths with 637 over the past 24 hours, the lowest number in nearly two weeks. (Photo by PAU BARRENA / AFP) (Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

What's the recovery like from a severe case of coronavirus? April 6, 2020 | 6:12 PM

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual press briefing Wednesday, March 25, 2020.

Trump, Biden spoke by phone about coronavirus outbreak April 6, 2020 | 5:48 PM

Monitors displaying stock market information are seen through the window of the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York.

Dow surges 1,600 points even as U.S. braces for 'hardest and saddest' week of the pandemic April 6, 2020 | 5:32 PM

In this Nov. 15, 2029, photo U.S. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), addresses the crew during an all-hands call on the ship's flight deck while conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. defense leaders are backing the Navy's decision to fire the ship captain who sought help for his coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, even as videos showed his sailors cheering him as he walked off the vessel. Videos went viral on social media Friday, April 3, 2020, showing hundreds of sailors gathered on the ship chanting and applauding Navy Capt. Brett Crozier as he walked down the ramp, turned, saluted, waved and got into a waiting car. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh via AP)

Navy leader calls fired carrier captain 'naive' or 'stupid' April 6, 2020 | 5:18 PM