Russia has shortly reported its first coronavirus death case for a 79-year-old woman, who died in an infection disease hospital in Moscow of acute pneumonia and concomitant chronic diseases, according to the state's health ministry.
The patient was transferred to an infectious disease hospital last week. after her coronavirus test was positive. After that the woman was placed in an isolated room and given intensive care treatment due to respiratory failure.
She died of pneumonia against the background of very severe comorbidity pathologies, which included type 2 diabetes, arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis among other things.
It is worth mentioning that, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
According to the organization, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.
“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.
More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease Covid-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran.
Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.
They can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose or eyes.
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