• Coronavirus: The United States, Japan and a dozen other countries begin repatriating their citizens from Wuhan

The staff of the Wuhan Zall , Chinese soccer team belonging to the city that is the epicenter of the coronavirus, arrived at Malaga airport at noon for a two-week concentration in Sotogrande (Cádiz).

The arrival of the Asian club has alerted the population and the authorities, worried that they may have some kind of relationship with the virus, which today has exceeded the number of 6,000 confirmed cases of infection in Chinese territory . A fact that has accelerated the movements of numerous countries to get its citizens out of Wuhan and the province of Hubei as soon as possible. The death toll is already 132.

As reported by the Ministry of Health and the Junta de Andalucía , no member of the workforce has had symptoms of being affected by the coronavirus or undergone controls because "it has not been considered necessary." They come from Istanbul , where they arrived from Shanghai after having been training in Guangzhou -locality located 1,000 kilometers from Wuhan- since last January 4.

The team is led by the Spanish José González , a technician from Cádiz, Albacete, Córdoba, Murcia, Beijing Guoan, Granada and Malaga, who at the airport hastened to lower the alarm tone to the citizens: "You have to dramatize and give it a normal point. They are not walking viruses, they are athletes . I hope you find empathy, because it doesn't have to be easy to be so many kilometers away from home and to know that your family is in the quarantine zone, "he explained.

"The players started the preseason on day 3," he added: " They have been out of the most sensitive area for 26 days . The one who is most at risk is me, who was in Wuhan on January 9 and 10 for the visa, but I have done a checkup and I'm fine. "

González has been in Spain for several days since there was no competition in February in China for his New Year's holiday : "The Andalusian Government has established its necessary protocol. They are working together with the doctor of our team, because none of us want any incident , and We will be willing to undergo periodic checks, "he said.

The expedition of the Chinese club is made up of forty people , including about thirty football players and none were wearing masks , and upon arrival in Malaga teams from the Ministry of Foreign Health and the Andalusian Health Service of the Board have "found" that there were no "incidents sanitary among passengers, that is, all are asymptomatic, "they explained.

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