Dhe novel coronavirus spreads not only in Italy, but also in the rest of Europe. In Baden-Württemberg, for the first time, a patient has been shown to be suffering from the novel corona virus. It was a 25-year-old man from the Göppingen district, said the Ministry of Health in Stuttgart on Tuesday evening. He probably got infected during a trip to Italy in Milan.
After the positive test, the man should be taken to a clinic in the evening and isolated there. The contact persons are currently being identified and appropriate protective measures initiated. There are thus 17 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Germany. After returning from Italy, the man had flu-like symptoms and then reported to the local health department, the ministry said. Health Minister Manne Lucha cautioned: “Baden-Württemberg prepared for this case early on. All parties involved work closely and intensively together. “
In the evening it became known that a man from Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia also fell ill. According to the authorities, his condition is critical. As the district of Heinsberg announced, the man had been admitted to the Hermann Josef Hospital in Erkelenz on Monday afternoon with symptoms of severe pneumonia. According to dpa information, the man is in his mid-40s, but suffers from a previous illness.
In Spain, a Covid-19 infection was detected on the mainland for the first time on Tuesday. According to the Catalan health authorities, that was virus discovered in a 36-year-old woman in Barcelona who was visiting northern Italy a few days ago. Previously, the test by a doctor from northern Lombardy had been positive on the Canary Island of Tenerife. He had been on vacation there for a week. The 69-year-old Italian was placed in an isolation ward in a hospital in Santa Cruz together with his wife, who was later also tested positive. In Italy, the death toll has now risen to eleven, but the borders are said to remain open, according to the Italian Minister of Health.
On Tuesday, police officers also took a stand in front of the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel complex in the south of the island. The 69-year-old had spent his vacation with her there. About a thousand guests and employees are said to be staying in the four-star hotel. The Spanish TV broadcaster TVE reported that everyone in the hotel should be examined and not allowed to leave the complex for the time being. The guests were asked to stay in their rooms. As the news agency Efe reported, it is a health precaution and not a quarantine. The Spanish government called for prudence. One is well prepared for an emergency.
Search for contact persons
Infections with the novel corona virus have also occurred for the first time in Austria and Switzerland. In Tyrol, two 24-year-old people with relevant symptoms contacted the country’s control center on Tuesday. The two Italians from Lombardy, who live in Innsbruck, were isolated and treated in the university clinic there. “The expected has happened,” said an official in the Ministry of Health in Vienna.
The authorities were now trying to identify all contact persons in order to prevent further spread. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) announced an “even closer network” of controls, Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP) requested a list of the capacities, especially of the executive personnel, NBC defense and transport forces. Regardless, the right threw FPÖ the government “appeasement policy”. The FPÖ politician Herbert Kickl called for “illegal immigrants and asylum seekers to be quarantined from now on”. Because you know little about where they came from.
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