This was reported by the governor of the region Andrei Nikitin.
“I want to inform you that recently one of the patients of the infectious diseases hospital died, this patient suffered a stroke. He had a number of concomitant diseases, ”TASS quoted him.
The final causes of the death of a man will be announced on April 7.
According to Nikitin, an elderly man was infected by one of his relatives who came from a neighboring region.
The governor of the Novgorod region expressed condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
Earlier in Moscow, two patients aged 67 and 72 years died of coronavirus.
As of April 6, in Russia, 6343 cases of coronavirus were detected in 80 regions.