First confirmed nCoV death outside

China is in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (5th update, 3:21 p.m.) — The second case of n

ovel coronavirus confirmed by the Department of Health on Sunday morning became the first
recorded death outside China.

The 44-year-old male companion of the first confirmed carrier of the virus, a 38-year-
old woman, also tested positive for the virus, the DOH confirmed at a press briefing.

However, the man passed away on February 1, days after he was admitted for fever,
cough and sore throat. In his last few days, the patient was reported to be in stable
condition before his sickness worsened within 24 hours, Health Secretary Francisco
Duque said.

The man was also found to have severe pneumonia (nuh-mow-nyuh), a lung
inflammation due to viral or bacterial infection.

Both diagnosed patients came from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the virus, and
arrived in the Philippines from Hong Kong. Urging for calm, Rabindra Abeyasinghe,
the World Health Organization's representative in the Philippines, stressed that the
couple did not acquire the virus in the Philippines.