SEOUL — A patient in his or her mid-20s died Friday, becoming the youngest in Korea and the first under 30 to die with COVID-19, health officialssaid over the weekend.
The Busan patient, who had preexisting complications from a cerebrovascular disease, died just a day after being confirmed with COVID-19, according to the city office. Before symptoms appeared Thursday, the day of diagnosis, the patient had yielded negative results in PCR tests for the third consecutive day on Wednesday.
In a response to The Korea Herald’s question, a municipal health official said the patient initially had moderate symptoms such as fever which seemed to have rapidly worsened into an acute pneu…
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