The teenager’s death follows that of a 16-year-old French schoolgirl who was described on Friday as Europe’s youngest coronavirus fatality after she died in a Paris hospital. Medics are said to have decided against transferring him to a hospital with a paediatric A&E unit in Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, because of the severity of his condition. He has been confirmed as Portugal’s youngest person with coronavirus to die so far. Earlier today it emerged a British man has died on the Algarve after falling ill with coronavirus. Lagoa’s mayor Luis Encarnacao confirmed the death, the town’s second since the start of the coronavirus crisis.

Source: Daily Mirror March 29, 2020 13:36 UTC