##BREAKING: A 39-year-old man might have died of the novel #WuhanCoronovirus infection, local media TVB has cited sources. If so, it would be the first death in Hong Kong due to this newly founded pneumonia. #nCoV2019 news.tvb.com/instant/5e38d4…
Other local media outlets have also reported the death of that 39-year-old #WuhanCoronavirus patient. It was the second place where #WuhanCoronovirus dead is confirmed besides the Philippines Plus, that man had suffered from chronic disease, local media have also reported.
A source has also told me that that man died of congestive cardiac failure triggered by the #WuhanCoronavirus pneumonia this morning at Princess Margaret Hospital in Mei Foo and that his mother has also been infected by the disease.
The Hong Kong Hospital Authority has also confirmed the death of the 39-year-old man and added that more details will come in the afternoon.
The man travelled by train to Wuhan, China, on Jan 21, returning from the mainland to Hong Kong two days later. His mother, who did not travel to Wuhan, later contracted the virus, suggesting a transmission within the household. nytimes.com/2020/02/03/wor…
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