He was getting advised at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and died on Sunday morning, the hospital has confirmed.
Of the 12 bodies accepted to accept been adulterated with the virus about the world, six accept died.
The blackmail to the accepted citizenry is anticipation to be small, although the virus has apparent signs of overextension in people.
Three associates of the aforementioned ancestors accept been adulterated with the virus in the UK as able-bodied as addition accommodating who was aureate in from Qatar for treatment.
It is anticipation one ancestors affiliate best up the virus while travelling to the Middle East and Pakistan and again the virus advance to his son and addition ancestors member.
The son, who died, had a attenuated allowed system, which would accept larboard him added accessible to the infection.
The hospital said it continued its sympathies to the ancestors and was alive with the Bloom Protection Agency to analysis added bodies who may accept arise into acquaintance with the virus.
The infection causes pneumonia and sometimes branch failure.
The exact antecedent of the new virus and how it spreads is still unknown. The arch approach is that it comes from animals and the new Sars-like virus does arise to be carefully accompanying to a virus in bats.
The blackmail airish by the virus is anticipation to be low as it struggles to advance in people.
Prof John Watson, arch of the respiratory diseases administration at the Bloom Protection Agency, said: "The routes of manual to bodies of the atypical coronavirus accept not yet been absolutely determined, but the contempo UK acquaintance provides able affirmation of human-to-human manual in at atomic some circumstances.
"The three contempo cases in the UK represent an important befalling to access added advice about the characteristics of this infection in bodies and accident factors for its acquisition, decidedly in the ablaze of the aboriginal anytime recorded instance of allegedly lower severity of affliction in one of the cases.
"The accident of infection in contacts in a lot of affairs is still advised to be low and the accident associated with atypical coronavirus to the accepted UK citizenry charcoal actual low."
Prof Ian Jones, from the University of Reading, said: "Given the antecedent bloom cachet of the accommodating it may be abortive to accept the afterlife was a aftereffect of the infection but even if it was, it is absurd to announce a change in the virus.
"No accepted virus advance has been appear acceptation the accident to the accessible charcoal actual low."
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