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Ballad Health has seen its first patient death related to COVID-19, health system leaders announced Tuesday morning.

The individual was a man over 70 with "multiple co-morbidities,” Ballad CEO Alan Levine said.

“We were able to get a family member to be with this person in their final moments,” he said.

Officials declined to provide any other specific details, including whether the case came out of Northeast Tennessee or Southwest Virginia.

Levine said he did not know if the case was related to travel or community spread of the virus.

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