TIRANA, March 22 /ATA/ – The Ministry of Health on Sunday evening said that a 71-year-old man from the town of Kuçova has died of complications after being infected by the coronavirus, the third confirmed fatality in Albania since the first COVID-19 cases were recorded earlier this month.
“A patient who had been cared and hospitalized at the infectious diseases hospital and who had tested positive for COVID-19, died tonight,” the Ministry of Health said.
The 71-year-old patient from Kuçova had underlying health conditions and he had been treated for advanced lung cancer at the University Hospital Shefqet Ndroqi in Tirana and had been hospitalized in the infectious diseases centre over the past seven days.
“The family has been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them,” the Ministry of Health said in a press release, renewing its appeal to maintain social distancing and respect other rules aimed at containing the disease in the country.
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