He was athletic, a swimming competitor and had no previous illnesses. The German doctor had mild symptoms. The 59-year-old died a few days after a positive corona test. The grief in Mallorca is great.
- The number of corona infections is increasing in Mallorca.
- Now a German doctor has died on the island in connection with Covid-19.
- His death shakes colleagues and the medical association.
Palma - For the Medical Association and its colleagues in the Balearic Islands, the news is incredible. The grief was great. A doctor practicing in Mallorca died of a corona infection shortly after a Covid-19 diagnosis *. The 59-year-old had developed mild symptoms - cough and fever, the medical association said in a press release. After a positive corona test on Sunday, the doctor stayed in quarantine at home and was monitored by phone. Then his condition suddenly deteriorated dramatically. He died of respiratory and cardiac arrest.
The native of Hesse is the first doctor in Mallorca and the Balearic Islands to have died in connection with the corona virus , the medical association announced. The German surgeon and digestive disease expert has been practicing on Mallorca for years. Mainly, Dr. Kablitz foreign patients. The doctor leaves behind a wife and two young children. With a minute's silence, colleagues remembered the doors of the university on Mallorca on Wednesday.
El Col·legi Oficial de Metges lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del primer médico en ejercicio en Balears a causa de la covid-19. El Dr. Bernd Kablitz, de 59 años, ha fallecido hoy en su domicilio solo unos días después de contraer la enfermedad | https://t.co/vmPF0BNfrJ pic.twitter.com/sAR7rjWP1S
- Comib (@COMbalears) August 18, 2020Corona in Mallorca: where did the doctor get infected with the virus?
It is initially unclear whether the doctor was infected while serving. Spanish media reports that the doctor was very careful to protect himself - wearing an FFP2 and a surgical mask to work.
A travel warning has been in effect for Mallorca since August 15th. But the government on the Balearic holiday island has also tightened the measures to curb the spread of the corona virus. A second corona wave currently seems very far away. But with the return of the party vacationers on Mallorca, they could spill over to Germany. Consequences are demanded .
After Mallorca , the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has classified holiday regions in Croatia as risk areas. This process hardly came as a surprise. In the past few days, the number of new infections in Croatia has increased. Croatia vacationers made up a large part of the new corona cases. * Mercury is part of the Ippen-Digital network