Coronavirus : second confirmed case in Spain
The Spanish National Center for Microbiology has confirmed this Sunday the second case of new coronavirus in the country. He is one of four British patients who were under observation for suspected infection in Palma de Mallorca. United Kingdom confirmed another positive case on the same day. It is the second case confirmed in Spain after that discovered in the Canary Islands at the end of January. Lisbob, the expatriate assistant in Spain, tells you all about this new case of coronavirus in Spain.
Coronavirus: second confirmed case in Spain
Second confirmed case
The new confirmed case of coronavirus is from a British family, and it was discovered in Palma de Mallorca. This British family, a couple and two girls aged 7 and 10, is isolated and under observation at Son Espases hospital in Palma de Mallorca.
According to the Spanish Center for Microbiology, the other three patients, from the same British family, are not infected but must remain in quarantine for 14 days to ensure that they do not develop symptoms related to the coronavirus.
Friday, the four members of this family were put under observation in Mallorca, after having been in contact with an infected person in France who was then diagnosed with the virus. Test results for the wife and two daughters of the British patient were negative.
The first positive case of coronavirus in Spain was diagnosed at the end of January, in a German tourist who had been in contact with the virus in Germany but fell ill in the Canaries.
The United Kingdom also confirmed this Sunday another positive case of coronavirus on its territory, bringing to four the number of people infected with the new virus.
In Europe alone, cases have already been confirmed in Germany, Belgium, France, Finland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy and Sweden.
A plane with 200 people repatriated from Hubei to China has arrived in the United Kingdom.
The second and "last" plane chartered by London to repatriate some 200 British and other foreign citizens who were still in the Chinese province of Hubei, epicenter of the epidemic of the new coronavirus, landed Sunday in the United Kingdom.
On board were about 200 people, British and other nationalities, the British Foreign Office said on Saturday. The French Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, had already confirmed Friday that 38 French citizens would be repatriated on this flight chartered by the British authorities.
The 200 people who have arrived in the UK must spend 14 days in solitary confinement.
Coronavirus comes from China and has already killed more than 800 people.
United Kingdom, which has already confirmed four cases of infection, has advised some 30,000 Britons in China to leave the country to minimize exposure to the new coronavirus and has so far repatriated a total of 94 British citizens from Wuhan City. .
The number of deaths from coronavirus increased this Sunday to 811, surpassing deaths from SARS in 2002-2003, with a total of 37,198 infected people, according to official data.
According to the chinese National Health Commission, by the end of Saturday there were 6,188 serious cases, while 2,649 people had been cured.