A woman from Tenerife, second fatal victim of Covid-19 in the Canary Islands

The patient presented a medical condition with serious pathologies

March 17 2020 (07:02 WET)
A woman from Tenerife, second fatal victim of Covid-19 in the Canary Islands
A woman from Tenerife, second fatal victim of Covid-19 in the Canary Islands

The Canary Islands registered this Monday the second death from coronavirus. The deceased is a woman who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in Tenerife and who was also suffering from oncological diseases that had led her to remain in a very serious state of health.

Until now, the Islands had only recorded one death associated with this condition. The first occurred last Friday at the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria and the deceased was an 81-year-old woman who was admitted on March 10 to the Emergency service of the aforementioned center.

 

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