Individuals shopping for protecting masks at a medical provides retailer in Manila on January 31, 2020.Ted Aljibe | AFP | Getty PhotographsThe Phil
Individuals shopping for protecting masks at a medical provides retailer in Manila on January 31, 2020.
Ted Aljibe | AFP | Getty Photographs
The Philippines confirmed {that a} man who examined optimistic for the brand new coronavirus died on Saturday.
The 44-year-old man was the second confirmed case within the Philippines. Officers mentioned he had a fever, cough and sore throat earlier than being admitted to the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila.
The person’s loss of life comes amid an outbreak of a coronavirus stemming from Wuhan, China. Earlier Sunday, Chinese language officers mentioned the virus has claimed 304 lives and contaminated no less than 14,380 within the nation.
“That is the primary reported case outdoors of China. Nonetheless, we have to remember that he got here from Wuhan, China,” Dr. Rabi Abeyasinghe, a World Well being Group consultant within the Philippines mentioned in a press release on Twitter.
In a Sunday briefing, officers within the Philippines mentioned the person had “blended pathogens” in his system, together with “Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenza kind b.”
Coronaviruses are a big household of viruses that often infect animals however can generally evolve and unfold to people. Signs in people embrace fever, coughing and shortness of breath, which might progress to pneumonia.
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