Man who intentionally spread coronavirus dies in Japan — media

A Japanese man who said he wanted to spread the coronavirus after he had been diagnosed with the disease has died, Kyodo News reported on Wednesday.

The man who lived in Gamagori, a city in Aichi Prefecture, was 57 years old. He died in the hospital where he remained over the past few days.

The patient was diagnosed with the coronavirus in early March. He could only be hospitalized to the infectious disease ward the next day, so the doctors asked him to go straight home and self-isolate. Instead, the man reportedly visited at least two bars, informing his relatives who had earlier tested positive for the infection that he was going "to spread the virus."

In one of the bars, the man said that he had been infected with the coronavirus, after which employees got in touch with the police and public health services, which detained him. To date, at least one of those who had contacts with the infected man has tested positive for the coronavirus. That was a visitor of one of the above-mentioned bars. Her condition is described as stable.