Coronavirus: Elderly woman dies, virus link unconfirmed

An 80-year-old woman who was being treated at the Paphos general hospital died early on Sunday morning, the Cyprus News Agency reported.

The woman was in the suspicious cases ward after presenting respiratory infection and other ailments while waiting to be tested for the coronavirus.

If her coronvirus test proves positive, she would be the 20th person to die with the virus. There have been 19 other virus-linked deaths so far; 14 concern people who died of coronavirus although most of them had underlying health conditions. Five more had coronavirus when they died but it was not the cause of death.

A 94-year-old woman was also admitted to the ward after presenting fever and weakness.

CNA also reported that on Sunday afternoon a 49-year-old man whose CT scans were consistent with carriers of Covid-19 was expected to be admitted to the suspicious cases ward or in the hospital’s ICU.

An 85-year-old woman is being treated in ICU with breathing difficulties and is intubated. She has already been tested for the coronavirus and is expecting the results.

 

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