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Spain tries to stop coronovirus spread from Italy

News Desk (Agence France-Presse)
Madrid, Spain
Wed, February 26, 2020

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Spain tries to stop coronovirus spread from Italy Picture shows a general view of Nuestra Senora de Candelaria University Hospital on Feb. 25, 2020 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where an Italian national has been isolated after testing positive in novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Tourists staying in a four-star hotel on the Spanish island of Tenerife, in the Canary archipielago, were confined to their rooms today following the announcement of a suspected novel coronavirus, COVID-19, case waiting for official confirmation. This possible case was detected yesterday in Tenerife, where an Italian national passed a first test which turned out to be positive, announced the Spanish Ministry of Health. (AFP/Desiree Martin )

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pain tried Wednesday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus from Italy after eight cases of the flu-like disease were detected within a 24-hour period all linked to the country.

Hundreds of tourists remained confined to a Tenerife hotel Wednesday for a second straight day as a precaution after a an Italian and his wife tested positive for the disease which has so far killed 11 people in Italy. The couple are in quarantine at a Tenerife hospital.

Two other Italians who were part of the same group of holidaymakers who flew to the island and were staying at the hotel have also tested positive, health authorities on the Canary Islands said.

Four other cases have been detected in mainland Spain -- two in the Madrid region, one in the Valencia region and one in Barcelona, that of a 36-year-old Italian woman who lives in the city and had recently made a trip to the north of Italy, the worst affected region.

All eight cases must be confirmed by a second test as required by Spain's protocol for suspected cases of the disease.

Spain's Health Minister Salvador Illa late on Tuesday advised people not to travel to northern Italy and other global hotspots for the disease such as Wuhan in China, South Korea, Japan and Iran "unless it is essential".

He also said all patients in Spanish hospitals with respiratory illnesses of "unknown causes" would undergo tests to see if they had coronavirus.

Spain is home to over 240,000 Italians and it welcomed 4.5 million visitors from Italy last year.

Spain had so far registered two confirmed cases of coronavirus, both in foreigners.

The first case was that of a German man on La Gomera island in the Canaries who tested positive on Jan. 31 followed by a British man who tested positive in Mallorca in the Balearic Islands on Feb. 9. Both recovered.

 

 

 

               

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