A person who could have contracted the coronavirus was hospitalized yesterday at the end of the afternoon at the center hospitalier de la Miséricorde in Ajaccio, in an isolated unit confirmed the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Corsica in the evening.
The information had circulated in the form of rumors throughout the afternoon but the health authorities, in Corsica and in Paris, refused to confirm it by warning that they would only speak on the proven cases. Despite everything, the persistence of this rumor which was gaining momentum over the hours led the director of the ARS, Marie-Hélène Lucenne to clarify the facts.
Neither the identity nor the age of the person hospitalized was disclosed. No more than how she could have come into contact with Covid 19. "She was the subject of samples which were sent to the reference center, that is to say, to the Pasteur Institute, for be analyzed there ", explains the director of ARS. Which specifies that "pending the return of these analyzes, this patient will remain hospitalized in isolation at the Mercy Hospital Center".
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Tenerife records the third case of coronavirus in Spain Health activates the coronavirus protocol after a first positive in an Italian citizen 24.02.2020
An Italian tourist tests positive for coronavirus in Tenerife. The case has been detected in Adeje, as it was known on Monday and has been confirmed by the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government. The tourist, a doctor by profession, apparently a man who could have arrived in Tenerife this week from the Italian region of Lombardy, has tested positive for coronavirus tests, becoming the third case of coronavis confirmed in Spain. The area of Lombardy in which seven people have already died from coronavirus.
The tourist went to the health services affirming that he could be infected by the coronavirus. Although after doing the interview, it was initially understood that it could be a negative case, the tests were conducted on the afternoon of this Monday at the University Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria that confirmed the case. The Italian doctor was already isolated in recent days by not ruling out contagion.
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the General Directorate of Public Health, reports that the protocol established by coronavirus has been activated. The protocol establishes the obligation to perform second tests at the National Center for Microbiology of the Carlos III Health Institute. The citizen is isolated and under sanitary control.
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has informed through his official Twitter account that the corresponding protocol was activated during the afternoon of this evening.