An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalised in France has died of the coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe
Buzyn said the 80-year old man, who had been treated at the Bichat hospital in northern Paris since Januaray 25, had died of a lung infection due to the coronavirus.
The man was from the Chinese province of Hubei, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, she said. He had arrived in France on January 16 and was hospitalised on January 25 and put in isolation. His condition deteriorated rapidly.Europe has 46 cases of the virus that first emerged in central China in December. Nine European nations have reported cases, with Germany having the most at 16. France has recorded 11 cases of the virus that has now affected more than 63,800 worldwide.
Until the death in France, there had been three deaths outside China, with one in Japan, one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
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