Sweden reports first death from coronavirus
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11 March, 2020, 09:55 pm
Last modified: 11 March, 2020, 09:59 pm
“The patient has had COVID-19 as well as an underlying sickness”
Sweden reported its first death from the new coronavirus on Wednesday with a hospital in Stockholm saying an elderly patient had died in intensive care.
"The patient has had COVID-19 as well as an underlying sickness," the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, just outside Stockholm, said in a statement.
Sweden reported its first case of coronavirus at the end of January.
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