Tashkent, May 18 -- Uzbekistan recorded the 12th fatal case of Covid-19. According to the press service of the Ministry of Health, the man infected with the coronavirus was from Surkhandarya region and worked as a trucker.

He recently arrived in Uzbekistan from Russia via Tajikistan and was admitted to the regional infectious diseases hospital on May 5 with bilateral pneumonia. Diagnostic tests showed that he had a coronavirus.

On May 11, due to the deterioration of his condition and the diagnosis of severe acute bilateral bronchopneumonia, the patient was transferred to the intensive care unit and connected to a ventilator.

Despite the help provided, the man died of cardiovascular and acute respiratory failure.

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