<p>Authorities in California say two more death row inmates have died from apparent complications of the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">coronavirus </a>in the midst of an outbreak that has infected 40 percent of inmates at San Quentin State Prison.</p>.<p>The corrections department says Scott Erskine and Manuel Machado Alvarez died Friday.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-news-live-updates-over-359-lakh-have-recovered-from-covid-19-so-far-indias-tally-spikes-over-606-lakh-toll-at-17852-856206.html#1" target="_blank"><strong>For latest updates and live news on coronavirus, click here</strong></a></p>.<p>Erskine was on death row for the 1993 murder of two boys, aged nine and 13, in San Diego. Alvarez was there for a 1987 series of crimes that included rape, robbery, carjacking, and murder in Sacramento.</p>.<p>There have now been two dozen deaths from Covid-19 in California's prison system. </p>
<p>Authorities in California say two more death row inmates have died from apparent complications of the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">coronavirus </a>in the midst of an outbreak that has infected 40 percent of inmates at San Quentin State Prison.</p>.<p>The corrections department says Scott Erskine and Manuel Machado Alvarez died Friday.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-news-live-updates-over-359-lakh-have-recovered-from-covid-19-so-far-indias-tally-spikes-over-606-lakh-toll-at-17852-856206.html#1" target="_blank"><strong>For latest updates and live news on coronavirus, click here</strong></a></p>.<p>Erskine was on death row for the 1993 murder of two boys, aged nine and 13, in San Diego. Alvarez was there for a 1987 series of crimes that included rape, robbery, carjacking, and murder in Sacramento.</p>.<p>There have now been two dozen deaths from Covid-19 in California's prison system. </p>