Coronavirus, the first Italian death: it is one of the two patients from Veneto. He was 78 years old, died in Padua

First died in Italy of Coronavirus: a 78 year old man. The man tested positive for Coronavirus who died on Friday evening shortly after 22.45 in the hospital of Padua: one of the two coronavirus positive patients. The governor Luca Zaia confirmed this to the Ansa. At the moment there are fifteen infected in Lombardy, in the Lodi area, and one in Veneto, in the Paduan area.

The patient who died of coronavirus in Veneto was 78 years old and was a retired bricklayer. The man, hospitalized for about ten days for previous pathologies, died on Friday evening at the hospital of Schiavonia (Padua), and not in the hospital of the Euganean capital, as reported initially. There was not even time to transfer it, said Governor Luca Zaia.

(This news being updated)