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South Korean coronavirus patient dies at home as 600 wait for hospital beds in Daegu

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South Korean authorities are scrambling to increase the number of hospital beds in Daegu to deal with the sudden escalation in coronavirus cases in the city, after a 74-year-old man died at home while waiting to be admitted to a hospital.

The man, who suffered from chronic kidney problems and had received a kidney transplant, started to complain of a slight fever last Saturday. Daegu health authorities monitored his condition by calling him twice a day.

He experienced serious respiratory…



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