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Spain’s Health Ministry confirms first case of coronavirus

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A handout picture provided by Moncloa Presidential Palace shows the airplane by Wamos airline carrying 19 Spanish citizens from Wuhan (China), after landing at Barajas' Airport, in Madrid, Spain, 31 January 2020 (issued 01 February 2020). The 19 Spaniards will have to be placed under quarantine at a Military Hospital in Madrid for about 14 days to make sure that none has been infected with the coronavirus. Up until now, the only case of coronavirus registered in Spain, announced 31 January 2020, confirms that one of a group of five German tourists, that had previously been put into quarantine, was diagnosed with the illness in La Gomera, Canary Islands. The patient had been in contact with a sick person back in Germany before traveling to Spain. EPA-EFE/MONCLOA POOL HANDOUT

Spain’s Health Ministry announced late on Friday that the western European country had confirmed its first case of the Wuhan coronavirus.

In a press statement Friday, the Spanish Ministry of Health announced the country’s first coronavirus case: a German tourist at a hospital in the Canary Islands, far from the mainland. The statement notes the patient has been isolated.

The diagnosis from Spain’s National Centre for Microbiology came shortly after a plane transporting a group of 27 EU nationals from the virus’s epicentre in the Chinese city of Wuhan landed in Madrid.

None of the repatriated Spaniards exhibited symptoms of the virus, but they will be quarantined at a military hospital in Madrid and held under observation for 14 days, the health ministry said.

 

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