MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): Another individual tagged as a patient under investigation (PUI) for suspected novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection died Thursday, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday (Feb 7). In a press briefing, DOH Undersecretary Eric Domingo stressed that the patient died of pneumonia and not of 2019-nCov. “The second PUI death which was confirmed yesterday (Thursday) is a case of pneumonia in a patient with underlying restrictive lung disease, ” Domingo said. The first case of PUI death was a 29-year-old Chinese from Yunnan who also succumbed to pneumonia and later on tested negative for novel coronavirus. He was labelled as the first 2019-nCoV death in the Philippines and outside China.

Source: The Star February 07, 2020 07:30 UTC