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Coronavirus: Authorities in Europe are on alert 0:36
(CNN Spanish) - The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands confirmed, through its Twitter account, another positive case for coronavirus, this time in the Gomero municipality of Valle Gran Rey.
According to the health entity, it is a woman who “was in Italy between February 4 and 8. At the moment she is admitted and in isolation at the General Hospital of La Gomera ”.
📢 📢 Health confirms a first positive for coronavirus of a citizen residing in the Gomero municipality of Valle Gran Rey, which was in Italy between February 4 and 8. At the moment she is admitted and in isolation at the General Hospital of La Gomera.
- Gobcan Health (@SanidadGobCan) February 26, 2020
"The next step in the protocol will be to perform the second tests to confirm or rule out that first positive at the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid," says the statement from the Canary Islands Ministry of Health.
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With this new person infected by the coronavirus, the number of cases confirmed by the authorities in the past 48 hours in Spain rises to 11, 13 in total since the outbreak in Wuhan, China.
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