Francisco Garcia, a 21-year-old youth football coach in Malaga, Spain , has died few days after catching coronavirus.
News reports described him as the youngest victim to die in the entire world.
Francisco was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Friday, along with the devastating news that he had leukaemia.
“Mr Garcia had no idea he had an aggressive form of cancer, which made him extremely vulnerable to coronavirus, when he went to a hospital with breathing problems last Friday”,
The president of the Atletico Portada Alta football club said he was told that Mr Garcia was stable, but an hour later was informed that he had died.
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Spain is battling with 9,191 cases of coronavirus, with 1349 reported in the last 24 hours. The death toll is now 309, with Garcia now among the statistics.
Worldwide, 173, 177 coronavirus cases have been recorded, with 6680 people dead and 77,811 recovered.
Earlier on, an Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei, died on Monday after being infected with COVID-19 in the city of Qom.
State news agency IRNA reported that Bathaei was admitted in hospital on Saturday and had become the latest of 14 Iranian officials to fall victim to the pandemic that has ravaged the country.