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| Medical staff move a 2019-nCoV patient into the isolation ward in a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, Feb. 6. The nation is pulling medical resources from around the country to help the province, badly hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak. EPA |
A Japanese man with a suspected coronavirus infection has died in hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Japanese foreign ministry said Saturday.
The man in his 60s had been hospitalized due to severe pneumonia and the hospital reported his death to the Japanese Embassy in China, the ministry said in a statement.
Chinese medical authorities said the man was highly likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus but "it was difficult to make a definitive judgment," the statement said.
His cause of death was given as viral pneumonia, it added.
The man would be the first Japanese victim of the outbreak if his infection is confirmed. (AFP)
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