Prague, March 22 (CTK) – The first COVID-19 patient, a man aged 95, hospitalised in the Prague Na Bulovce hospital, died in the Czech Republic today, the server iDnes.cz has said.
The man was hospitalised on March 18 and stayed at the infection clinic. He suffered from a number of health problems, such as chronic heart failure and chronic ischemic heart disease and had a pacemaker.
“The cause of the death was the overall exhaustion of organism in the patient with numerous internal diseases,” the Health Ministry said.
“The news is tremendously sad. Unfortunately, as we watch the development of the disease, we had to reckon with the moment,” Health Minister Adam Vojtech (for ANO) said.
Deputy Health Minister Roman Prymula told Czech Television the man had also suffered from other diseases.
“His organism was exhausted, he was 95. I would say he died along with coronavirus rather than from coronavirus,” Prymula said.