PARIS, Feb 15 — An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalised in France has died of the coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Saturday. France has recorded 11 cases of the virus, out of a global total of 67,000. The vast majority of those...
Saturday, 15 Feb 2020 06:41 PM MYTPARIS, Feb 15 — An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalised in France has died of the coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Saturday.
Buzyn said she was informed on Friday that the 80-year old man, who had been treated at the Bichat hospital in northern Paris since Jan. 25, died of a lung infection due to the coronavirus. “We have to get our health system ready to face a possible pandemic propagation of the virus, and therefore the spreading of the virus across France,” she added.
His daughter, who is also hospitalised in Paris, was no longer a source of concern for health authorities and could be released soon, the minister said.
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