Georgia reports first coronavirus death

A 79-year-old woman from Marneuli, Georgia, who had infected with coronavirus, died, Report informs citing the government’s website.

The woman was suffering from other diseases too.

157 people have been invested with COVID-19 in Georgia, 28 of them have recovered.

The new coronavirus emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan, the most populous city in Central China. 1,127,000 people were infected with novel coronavirus infection, 59,949 died worldwide.

On March 11, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.