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The Munich Municipal Hospital that was treating a novel coronavirus (NCoV) case recently transferred from the UAE (see Germany Reporting 17th NCoV Case), has posted the following announcement of his death.
With the novel coronavirus (HCoV-EMC) infected patient is tonight at its severe disease died
Munich 26, March 2013. The novel from an infection with the Beta coronavirus (HCoV-EMC) ill 73-year-old male from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in the Schwabing Clinic in the medical Care was, tonight died of his serious illness.
The patient died one underlying circulatory shock in the infection and underlying serious medical conditions. "Due to an advanced stage, Infection with HCoV-EMC and septic disease was the forecast for the Patients unfortunately very unfavorable, so that the patient despite maximum intensive care could not be saved, "lamented Wendtner Professor, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Schwabing Hospital, the tragic course in this patient. The body of the patient in a timely manner his homeland are transferred. This is done in close coordination with the obert Koch Institute and the Department of Health and Environment (RGU).
Contact persons and relatives of the patients are still in tighter coordination between the hospital and the RGU and advise medically monitored.
Based on previous reporting by the World Health Organization, this should represent the 17th lab confirmed case of NCoV, and the 11th known death.
As of this posting, there is no update on the WHO coronavirus site.
