Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of deceased patients

	N	%	95% CI
Gender (male)	46	67.4	52.0, 80.5
Age (mean)	45	70.6	67.0, 74.3
Date of hospitalisation (median, range)	45	14 January 2020	26 November 2019, 29 January 2020
Time from first symptom onset to hospital admission (days, mean)	33	6.2	5.1, 7.3
Time from hospital admission to death (days, median, IQR)	45	8.0	5.0, 12.0
First symptoms
Fever	29/44	65.9	50.1, 79.5
Cough	27/44	61.4	45.5, 75.6
Dyspnoea	12/44	27.3	15.0, 42.8
Weakness	8/44	18.2	8.2, 32.7
Chest pain/discomfort	6/44	13.6	5.2, 27.4
Any comorbidity	29/46	63.0	47.5, 76.8
Diabetes	11/42	26.2	13.9, 42.0
Hypertension	17/42	40.5	25.6, 56.7
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease	8/43	23.3	11.8, 38.6
Pulmonary disease	7/43	16.3	6.8, 30.7