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Eight cases of coronavirus in Spain. On Tuesday night the first contagion of Covid-19 in Madrid was confirmed, and this Wednesday a second infected was confirmed, adding to the six positives in Tenerife , Barcelona and Castellón . Meanwhile, Italy is shielded from the expansion of Wuhan's pneumonia , with more than 300 sick people and 11 fatalities.

The international panic threatens the economy while the market of masks and medical devices lives its August. Follow the last hour of the epidemic minute by minute.

10.19 First Frenchman killed by coronavirus

A Frenchman has died due to the coronavirus in the early hours of Wednesday in Paris , the French Ministry of Health has announced and picks up Afp. It is a 60 year old man.

"He urgently underwent tests yesterday (Tuesday) at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in a very serious state and died at night," announced the ministry's number two, Jérome Salomon . Another patient had already died in France, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist.

9.47 Second case of coronavirus in Madrid

The Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid Enrique Ruiz Escudero has confirmed a second case of coronavirus in the capital , a patient who traveled to Italy and is admitted to the Jiménez Díaz Foundation . It started with the symptoms this Monday. With this there are already eight infected in the Spanish territory: four in Tenerife, one in Castellón and one in Barcelona .

8.32 Brazil confirms a first case of coronavirus

The Brazilian health authorities have reported in the last hours that they have detected the first case of coronavirus in the country, although they have clarified that a new analysis for the final confirmation must still be performed.

The patient, according to official sources, is a 61-year-old Brazilian who was between the past 9 and 21 February in Lombardy , in northern Italy , a country in which up to 11 deaths have been registered and about 320 infected by the virus.

This is the first case of coronavirus detected in Latin America .

5:35 Dozens of cruise ship expanders in Japan developed symptoms

Dozens of passengers who were authorized to disembark from a quarantine cruise ship in Japan have developed symptoms, including fever, and will be asked to test for the virus, the Japanese health minister said on Wednesday.

The government has contacted 813 former passengers of the "Diamond Princess" ship. Last week, some 970 people who were in quarantine on board were allowed to leave because they had a negative result in laboratory tests.

However, it was discovered that several of those people are effectively contaminated.

The ministry verified that "45 people had certain symptoms," health minister Katsunobu Kato told parliament.

4:44 South Korea reports eleven victims and 1,146 cases

South Korea on Wednesday raised the death toll from coronavirus in the country to eleven, while those affected are at 1,146, after having registered 169 new cases.

Among the deceased is a Mongolian citizen who was hospitalized to receive a liver transplant, as reported by the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

Almost all South Korean provinces and major cities have reported some infections, including Seoul, which has reported four more cases on Tuesday, as confirmed by the South Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). English).

South Korea on Sunday raised the alert level of the virus to "red," the highest, which is the first time this level has been decreed since the outbreak of H1N1 swine flu in 2009.

3.40 A US SOLDIER, CONTAGED

A US soldier stationed in South Korea showed a positive result from contagion with the new coronavirus, military sources announced on Wednesday, in the first case registered among US troops in that country.

According to a statement from the US Forces in South Korea, the soldier was part of a force at the base of Camp Carroll, about 30 kilometers north of Daegu, the city where most cases of pollution are recorded in the country.

0:50 TWO NEW POSITIVES IN TENERIFE

The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has confirmed on Wednesday night two new positive coronavirus in Tenerife related to the group of Italians who were on tourism on the island.

As explained by the department directed by Teresa Cruz, these two new positives are direct contacts of the first two confirmed cases in Tenerife , an Italian doctor and his wife, who are admitted to the Hospital de La Candelaria, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Samples obtained from these two new positives will be sent to the Carlos III Health Institute for confirmation, following established protocols.

9:30 p.m. A positive in Castellón

The Department of Health of the Valencian Community has confirmed tonight another case of coronavirus in Spain, and the first in the Valencian Community, a man who had gone to the hospital La Plana, with symptoms compatible with the disease and who had recently been in Milan .

The first analyzes have confirmed the presence of the COVID-19 virus, according to the Department. The Department of Public Health has already sent the sample to the National Center for Microbiology in Majadahonda for confirmation of the result, reports Efe

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