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Ventilation of a corona patient in an intensive care unit (symbol image)
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In Baden-Württemberg, a registered corona patient died after a second infection with the virus.
It is the first such case in the southwest that has become known - and probably also in Germany.
The man lived in the Freudenstadt district, said the state health office in Stuttgart.
In April 2020, a corona infection was detected in him for the first time.
At the end of December 2020, the man was infected again, which was found in early January.
"The patient subsequently died of Covid19 pneumonia (pneumonia) and sepsis with multiple organ failure." The research network of WDR, NDR and "Süddeutscher Zeitung" first reported on it.
As the association further writes, it is a 73-year-old man.
Stefan Brockmann, who heads the health protection and epidemiology department at the state health office, told the German press agency that it was the first known death after a second infection in the southwest.
"There is no evidence that he had any of the new virus variants," Brockmann said.
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