An 88-year-old man died in Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital on Friday night from the coronavirus, Israel’s first fatality in the global pandemic, while several other patients were in a critical condition, the Times of Israel reported.
The hospital said the patient had been admitted in a very serious condition with multiple preexisting conditions. Despite intensive treatment, including being resuscitated from heart failure, he had deteriorated rapidly in recent hours and died, the hospital said.
According to Hebrew media reports, he, along with an 89-year-old Jerusalem woman fighting for her life in Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, were one of several residents of the Nofim senior home in Jerusalem who have come down with the disease.
705 Israelis have so far tested positive for the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, with the vast majority of cases mild and 15 recoveries. One patient has died and nine are in serious condition. In the West Bank, 48 cases have been diagnosed so far, and 17 have recovered, the majority of them in Bethlehem.
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