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Mata playing with his children. (Photo: Paradise Funeral Chapel) A longtime state corrections officer at Ionia s Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in mid-Michigan has died of Covid-19. The 45-year-old father of four, Ramiro Jose Mata of Lansing, died Jan. 9, the Lansing State Journal reports. He was a single father to his 6-year-old daughter. His other three children lived with his ex-wife. Family members assume Mata, a prison guard for 20 years, caught the virus at work, says a sister, Christina Moore. He was turned away from work Dec. 28 with a fever and a positive virus test result came back five days later, she added.