The first patient with coronavirus died in Altai

The first patient with coronavirus died in the Altai Territory. He had kidney failure.

A man who was previously diagnosed with coronavirus infection has died, Vyacheslav Rogonov, the head of the Logovsky village council, told the Tolk website on April 24.

The patient had health problems. He regularly went for hemodialysis, first to Barnaul and then to Novoaltaisk.

“He used to work for the police. He was a healthy man. The last time I saw him was 20 days ago. It was clear that he was ill, but nothing foreshadowed his imminent death, ”said local resident Alexander Bugrov to the publication.

In total, 152 cases of coronavirus have been officially confirmed in the Altai Territory. 18 people have recovered.

Thus, the number of deaths of patients with coronavirus in Siberia has increased to 18. In the regions of Siberia, 1382 cases are known.

In total, according to official data, almost 62.7 thousand people fell ill in Russia, 555 died, 4.8 thousand recovered.

At the end of December 2019, the Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization about an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, a large commercial and industrial center with a population of more than 11 million people. The causative agent of the disease was identified only on January 7, 2020 - this is a previously unknown type of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (the disease it causes was called COVID-19).

In the world, according to the latest data , the number of cases has exceeded 2.7 million, more than 190 thousand people have died. The epidemic has affected 177 countries and territories. At first, the main number of deaths was in China (4.6 thousand people), but according to this indicator, the PRC has already overtaken other countries. The United States is in the lead (46.6 thousand). A significant number of deaths were also recorded in Italy (25.5 thousand), Spain (22.1 thousand), France (21.8 thousand), Great Britain (18.7 thousand), Belgium (6.4 thousand). ) and Iran (5.4 thousand) . More than 738 thousand people have recovered worldwide.