First corona death in Sports World! 21-year-old Spanish football coach Francisco Garcia passes away

Malaga, (Spain), March 17: The deadly coronavirus has claimed the life of a 21-year-old, Spanish football coach Francisco Garcia after suffering from a form of leukemia here on Sunday, making him the youngest individual to die of corona across the world.

 

 

Garcia was a young football team coach of Malaga-based club Atletico Portada Alta. However, his health started to deteriorate when he was only informed of having cancer after going to the Regional Hospital of Malaga with symptoms of coronavirus. According to the reports, Garcia was advised to seek further medical help after he struggled to breathe, and was informed that he had both coronavirus and pneumonia.

 

However, he was also told that he had leukemia, which escalated the level of risk that he was exposed to after contracting the virus. The local reports stated that he would have survived if he had not been suffering from leukemia.

It is stated that he is probably the youngest victim of the coronavirus outbreak.

 

The youngest individual to die in Italy which has been the the worst-hit country after China and European nation. A 38-year-old man who had died last week was the youngest while China’s youngest victim is a 36-year-old male. He was the fifth person who passed away in the Malaga region. In Spain, almost 300 people have died from this outbreak in Spain and there are more than 9,000 positive cases. However, all four other victims were all at least 70 years old.