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First coronavirus patient dies in Russia: Elderly woman with underlying medical conditions | First coronavirus patient dies in Russia: Elderly woman with underlying medical conditions |
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A 79-year-old woman, with numerous underlying health conditions, who was diagnosed with Covid-19 has died in an infectious disease hospital in Moscow, the agency for monitoring the situation with the disease reports. | |
The cause of death was pneumonia against the background of other very severe health problems, including type 2 diabetes, arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, and arteriosclerosis among other things. | |
The patient was hospitalized in a private clinic last Friday, but then transferred to an infectious disease hospital several days later. | |
Her coronavirus test returned positive, with the woman being placed in isolation and given intensive care treatment due to respiratory failure. | |
Health authorities have compiled a list of people who recently came into contact with the woman. They have all been placed under medical supervision, but none have so far showed any severe symptoms of the disease. | |
This is the first death of a coronavirus patient in Russia where 147 people have so far been infected, according to official testing figures. | |
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