First coronavirus-linked death recorded in Georgia

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 13:34, 4 April, 2020

YEREVAN, APRIL 4, ARMENPRESS.  1st case of coronavirus-linked death has been recorded in Georgia. ARMENPRESS reports the 79-year old woman was from Marneuli.

A doctor from one of Tbilisi hospitals informed that the woman had other concomitant diseases.  

Georgia has recorded a total of 156 cases.

In late December 2019, Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about an outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, central China. WHO declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus a global pandemic and named the virus COVID-19. 

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan