Taipei Times
Date: Jan 18, 2020
By: Reuters, SHANGHAI
A second person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following an outbreak
People eat noodles outside the Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where a man who died from viral pneumonia was confined, in Wuhan, China, on Sunday.
Photo: AFP\
The 69-year-old man surnamed Xiong (熊) had been hospitalized with multiple conditions, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said in a statement on its Web site late on Thursday.
He died on Wednesday.
Xiong exhibited abnormal renal function, severe impairment in multiple organs, inflammation of the heart muscle and other pressing conditions when he was admitted.
It was not clear from the commission’s statement whether these were pre-existing issues or consequences of the viral pneumonia. [FULL STORY]
