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Andalusia now has seven people infected with the coronavirus. Three of them have not traveled to Italy or China, so they could have contracted the disease after being in contact with the first local infected in Spain, a 62-year-old man who was at a job meeting on the Costa del Sol and that supposedly he would have become ill after interacting with a couple of tourists of Asian origin.

The Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, said that the first local infected in Spain, who has been admitted to the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville since last Wednesday, was able to contract the disease in Marbella after sharing space with a couple of Asian origin.

In statements to Canal Sur, Aguirre has explained that they have gone back to the month of January to reconstruct all the contacts, appointments or events that this patient went to, which evolves after “not presenting a fever in the last 24 hours and disappearing the dyspnea ", as reported by the regional administration.

Establishing the "patient traceability 1" has been "hard work" of the Andalusian Epidemiological Surveillance System, said the counselor, who during the morning announced that three people who had been related to this diagnosis were in isolation waiting for The results of the analysis. The uncertainty has only lasted one hour. Around 3:30 p.m., the contagion was confirmed .

The aforementioned counseling places the three positives in the Marbella town. They are two men of 42 and 53 years who, "after presenting pneumonia episode, are in active monitoring in their homes with all the guarantees of safety and care, as dictated by the protocols of the Ministry of Health for these cases."

One of them, like the first hospitalized, has stated that he was related to citizens of Asian origin who are not resident in Spain. To these two people is added a patient of 81 years, with family ties with one of the previous cases and who is actively monitored at home.

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Another case of coronavirus registered in Andalusia is also a resident in the province of Malaga. This is a 55-year-old patient who has recently traveled to Emilia-Romagna (Italy), resides in Fuengirola "and has no relation to the previous cases". "After presenting symptoms and testing positive , he is actively monitored at home," said source said.

Another affected is a 28-year-old man admitted to the Mediterranean hospital of Almeria and resident in the Italian city of Milan. This patient decided on his own will to return to his home -where he was in active follow-up-, but, after feeling that he could have a fever, he went to the aforementioned hospital center, where the relevant analyzes were performed and his hospital admission was decreed. "It remains stable".

Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, president of the Junta de Andalucía, in the commemoration of 28-F, has expressed concern about the effects that the pandemic can have on the main industry in the region: tourism. "The health authorities tell us that in the next few days and weeks we will see how the number of people affected increases ," which is why it recommends "keeping serenity within the concern, because alarms only aggravate."

In this context, Jesús Aguirre has pointed out that "out of every 100 people infected, 80 do not even know that they have contracted the virus; 15 have such banal symptoms that they do not need admission ; and five do." "Mortality is 2 percent," he said to dramatize the situation.

The regional vice president, Juan Marín, head of Tourism, has stated that "there are no data that tell us that we are going to have worse consequences than with Brexit or listeriosis."

The Ministry of Health and Family has reported that "the Coronavirus Advisory Group in Andalusia is in permanent contact and collaboration with the Ministry of Health to strengthen operational measures according to the criteria that are defined at all times."

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