BERLIN
A third person died of coronavirus in Germany, authorities announced on Wednesday.
A 73-year-old man with underlying health issues died on Tuesday night at a hospital in the worst-hit district of Heinsberg in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
He was a dialysis patient, and infection from the coronavirus had seriously impaired his health condition, local authorities said in a statement.
Germany’s first two deaths from coronavirus also took place in the country’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Earlier on Wednesday, Germany’s disease control agency the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in
