Altogether there are already 11,145 confirmed cases of the new Wuhan coronavirus in China. All 258 deaths occurred in this country.
Hubei provincial authorities confirmed 45 more fatalities in the past 24 hours. In the daily report released tonight, the provincial health commission, the most affected by the epidemic, indicates that contagion in Hubei continues to grow, with 1,347 new cases diagnosed. The infection has been reported in more than 20 countries.
Spain also confirmed on Friday night the first case of coronavirus in the country, according to the Reuters news agency, which cites the Spanish Ministry of Health.
The Spanish Ministry of Health reported that the patient was hospitalized and isolated at the Hospital de La Gomera, one of the islands in the Canary Islands, with the 2019-nCoV infection, better known as Wuhan coronavirus, writes the El País.
Meanwhile, the Health Council of the Government of the Canaries told the Spanish news agency Efe that the results of the analyzes carried out by the National Center for Microbiology at the Carlos III Health Institute confirmed that one of the five people who remained under observation in La Gomera was positive. . “This is a group of five German tourists, two of whom maintained direct contact with an infected person [pelo novo coronavírus] in Germany, “he said.
La Gomera Hospital
This Friday 21 Spanish citizens from Wuhan arrived in Spain, who will be quarantined in a military hospital for 14 days.
So far, Portugal has no record of infection by coronavirus. In Porto, however, a suspicious case that will be investigated in the next few hours. He is a 45-year-old citizen who is said to have been near Wuhan, China, on a recent business trip. THE suspicion has already been confirmed by DGS, which is following the issue. It is the second suspected case in Portugal in less than a week.
See below the interactive map with all confirmed coronavirus cases
Virus continues to spread
The previous balance pointed to 213 dead and nearly 10,000 infected in China.
In addition to mainland China and the Chinese regions of Macau and Hong Kong, there are more than 50 confirmed cases of infection in more than 20 other countries – Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Nepal, Malaysia, United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Australia, Finland, United Arab Emirates, Cambodia, Philippines and India.
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