Iran Press/Europe: A Chinese tourist died due to Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus outbreak first observed in Wuhan, China — at a French hospital on Friday. The case was the first reported death caused by the virus outside of Asia.
“I was informed last night of the death of the 80-year-old patient who has been hospitalized at Bichat hospital since January 25, and who was suffering from a coronavirus pulmonary infection,” France’s health minister, Agnès Buzyn, said in a statement on Saturday.
The victim, who has not been named, arrived in France as a tourist on January 16. He was hospitalized and placed under strict isolation on January 25. The man was from the Chinese province of Hubei, the center of the coronavirus outbreak and where the largest concentration of infections have been confirmed.
On December 31, the Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of pneumonia of an unknown origin in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province. The cause was later determined to be a new type of Coronavirus, designated as 2019-nCoV by specialists. The symptoms of the new Coronavirus are typical of common cold or flu: fever, coughing, sneezing, difficulty breathing.
The number of people who have died from Coronavirus in China has risen to 908, over 40,000 have been infected, the regional health committee reported on Sunday. 1,795 patients have been discharged from hospitals.
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