The coordinator of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, has confirmed that Spain has raised its level of risk with respect to the coronavirus, which goes from low to "moderate". The decision is taken after there have been 8 confirmed cases in Spain in just 36 hours.

Simón has made an effort during his daily appearance, however, in detailing that "globally the risk for Spain remains low, but we have decided to raise it to moderate to keep the tension and security active" in the cases that have arisen. As he has detailed "the risk must always be adapted, not only to the autonomies, but to the zones, and globally the risk is low which does not prevent areas with even high risk".

So far 10 positive cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Spain, two of them already discharged. The first of the cases that tested positive occurred on February 1 in La Gomera. It was a German citizen who had been in contact with a partner in Bavaria who in turn had been infected.

The second case that was positive was found in Mallorca on February 9: a British resident in Mallorca who was infected during a trip to the French Alps where he was in contact with other infected Britons. These first two cases were already discharged.

In the last 48 hours, however, the number of positive cases and places of suspicion has skyrocketed. On Monday, a case was confirmed in Tenerife, in an Italian doctor, whose wife also tested positive the next day, along with two other Italians who were in the same hotel. In total, four positives in Tenerife and about 800 people in the hotel where these cases were located in quarantine.

After them, on Tuesday afternoon the first cases appeared on the peninsula. The first in Barcelona, ​​a 36-year-old Spanish woman who has just arrived from a trip to Milan who attended the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona with symptoms.

The following case arose just a few hours later, a man who had been in Milan and who went to La Plana Hospital in Villarreal (Castellón) on Tuesday morning, with symptoms compatible with the disease.

Almost midnight on Tuesday, the first case in Madrid, a 24-year-old boy, appeared in good health who was at home with some symptoms after returning from Italy, and was positive. The Ministry of Health of Madrid decided to transfer it to Carlos III Hospital. In the early morning of Wednesday, the Minister of Health of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, confirmed the second case in the capital: another young man who had just returned from Italy and had tested positive at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation.

In total, 8 cases currently active in Spain and two already registered.

As a whole, more than 80,000 infections worldwide have already been identified, some 2,500 of them outside of China and almost 3,000 deaths in total, less than a hundred outside of China. Outside the Chinese borders, Italy is one of the most affected areas, with more than 300 infections and 11 dead. In Iran, 16 deaths and a hundred infections have already been confirmed.

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