“Regrettably, we can confirm that the elderly patient ... is dead. He was previously in the hospital for reasons not related to coronavirus, but after hospitalization his test for coronavirus showed a positive result, ”the report said.

Earlier it became known that the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in the UK reached 85.

The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.