A 14-year-old boy has died after falling ill with coronavirus in Portugal. The teenager’s death follows that of a 16-year-old French schoolgirl who was described on Friday as Europe’s youngest coronavirus fatality after she died in a Paris hospital.
The Portuguese youngster from Ovar, half an hour’s drive south of Porto, lost his fight for life in the early hours of this morning after being rushed to Sao Sebastiao Hospital in nearby Santa Maria da Feira.
Medics are said to have decided against transferring him to a hospital with a paediatric A&E unit in Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, because of the severity of his condition.