Family of second coronavirus victim to die in the UK say hospital was ‘too slow’ to isolate him: Caribbean cruise ship passenger, in his 80s, was left ‘coughing excessively’ on a ward for six hours as relatives fear he could have passed on the infection

The family of the grandfather in his 80s who died of coronavirus yesterday – the UK’s second fatality – fear he could have passed on the infection after he was left ‘coughing excessively’ on a ward for six hours. The man died at Milton Keynes Hospital after he was admitted on March 3 with suspected pneumonia having recently returned from a cruise where he had visited several countries. His cause of death is believed to be asphyxiation after he took off his oxygen mask. Relatives were told he had the disease – which has a mortality rate of 15 per cent in those over 80 – just an hour before he died on Thursday evening. The man was left ‘coughing excessively’ on a shared ward for six hours as patients warned hospital workers to check him for the deadly virus. One of the man’s family members, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Guardian: ‘Our concern is that the hospital were too slow to detect that our relative had symptoms similar to those of coronavirus and too slow to move him from a ward into isolation, and that that may have put a lot of people – fellow patients on the ward, staff who… Read full this story

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