niman Posted February 26, 2020 Report Posted February 26, 2020 The case of coronavirus of a patient who is isolated in the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville is the first indigenous case in Spain, since health authorities have ruled out that the patient had been abroad in recent months or had Private contact with citizens of China or Italy, the two countries most affected by the epidemic. https://sevilla.abc.es/sevilla/sevi-confirman-primer-caso-coronavirus-sevilla-paciente-hospital-virgen-rocio-202002261400_noticia.html#vca=rrss-
niman Posted February 26, 2020 Author Report Posted February 26, 2020 The case of coronavirus of a patient who is isolated in the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville is the first indigenous case in Spain, since health authorities have ruled out that the patient had been abroad in recent months or had Private contact with citizens of China or Italy, the two countries most affected by the epidemic. The analyzes performed at the Sevillian hospital have confirmed the positive, the first of all Andalusia so far, and the Carlos III Institute in Madrid, to which the patient's samples were sent, has officially corroborated the disease. This is a man in his 60s who does not respond to any epidemiological criteria. The patient is isolated in a hospital room, applying the protocols, and, although he has a fever, his condition is not serious. [Recommendations to face the coronavirus in Seville] So far, three patients are isolated in different health centers in Seville and Almeria. All the analyzes so far had been negative. Other positive cases detected in other parts of the national geography have been linked to movements to other countries. An isolated pair of monitors at the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville was negative at Covid-19 and the analysis of a third person admitted to the center is also pending. A patient remains isolated in the Virgin Macarena on suspicion of coronavirus - Vanessa Gómez Spain has registered ten positive cases by Covid-19 Spain has so far registered ten positive cases of coronavirus, of which two (those of La Gomera and Palma) have already been discharged. Of those hospitalized, four are in Tenerife and the rest in Barcelona, Castellón and Madrid. After the appearance, another case was confirmed in Barcelona of a young 22 year old who had been in Italy. Disinfect an AVE in Seville The AVE 2101 train that connects Madrid with Seville was stopped on Wednesday morning in the Andalusian capital for disinfection after two passengers claimed to have been in contact with people carrying the coronavirus . According to Servimedia confirmed to government sources, at 9:29 on Wednesday, in a long-distance train linking Madrid with Seville, two travelers called 112 Andalusian emergencies stating that they had been in contact with people carrying the coronavirus.
niman Posted February 26, 2020 Author Report Posted February 26, 2020 The Ministry of Health and Families of Andalusia has reported on Wednesday that the focus of contagion of the patient admitted to the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville is being investigated by coronavirus, a 62-year-old Sevillian businessman who has not traveled to areas of risk like China or Italy and has not been in contact with any other sick person, so it would be the first case of local infection of the disease in Spain. https://www.infolibre.es/noticias/politica/2020/02/26/directo_siete_casos_confirmados_por_coronavirus_espana_104376_1012.html
niman Posted February 27, 2020 Author Report Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) A 62-year-old man who has been in a Seville hospital for pneumonia since February 20 has been confirmed as the first case of local Covid-19 contagion registered in Spain. The diagnosis is highly significant as it confirms the suspicions of many specialists after the spike in coronavirus cases in Italy: “The virus has been circulating for several days in Spain and we hadn’t detected it,” said the head of infectious diseases at a major Spanish hospital earlier this week. The patient, who is being treated at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville, is from nearby Huelva and has not left Spain in recent weeks, according to the regional government, who suggested that a “meeting held in Málaga” could have been the origin of his infection. By Thursday afternoon a total of 17 cases had been reported in Spain. Of these, 15 were detected this week after hospitals adopted new criteria and began testing pneumonia patients for Covid-19. One patient in the Madrid region is reported to be in serious condition, with the other cases described as mild. The most severe case is a 77-year-old with pre-existing medical conditions who is being treated in a hospital in Torrejón de Ardoz, in the east of Madrid. The sudden increase and the confirmation that the disease is now being transmitted in Spain brings “a new scenario in which the health system and society will have to learn to live with the virus,” said all of the experts consulted by EL PAÍS. “Obviously there have to be fatalities,” said Fernando Simón, director of the Health Ministry’s Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies. “It is not a serious disease, but it is not trivial either. Obviously, if there are cases with risk factors, it is possible that someone will die in our country.” Spain’s eastern Valencia region confirmed its second case of coronavirus on Thursday: a man who was among the 2,500 Valencia soccer club fans who traveled to Milan on February 19 to see their team in a Champions League match. Meanwhile a new infection was also confirmed in Barcelona on Thursday: a 22-year-old woman from Tenerife who had also recently traveled to Milan. A total of four cases were confirmed in Spain on Wednesday, including the man being treated in Seville. But the other three – in Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Island of La Gomera – were, like the previous cases, detected in people who had picked up the infection abroad. The first two cases were discovered in La Gomera on January 31, and on the Balearic Island of Palma de Mallorca on February 9, but both of those patients have since been released from hospital. While the situation is significant, it is not particularly dramatic, the experts say. “Mortality from the coronavirus is relatively low, between 2% and 3%, and it is lower outside of China,” explained Pere Godoy, the president of the Spanish Epidemiology Society. “Its transmissibility, while not negligible, is also not explosive. We’re not going to see hospitals overwhelmed with thousands of sick people. The Spanish health system is amply prepared to deal with whatever is coming.” An example helps to put the problem into perspective. All of the cases diagnosed in Italy until yesterday – 400, most of them light – are approximately the same that any major Spanish hospital would deal with for flu during the annual spike in the illness. The discovery of the local infection in the case of the man from Huelva was no coincidence, but rather thanks to a change in the clinical protocols in Spanish hospitals. After the rise in cases in Italy, health centers in Spain are now actively testing patients who are being treated for pneumonia where the origin of the illness is unclear. Until Monday, such tests were only being carried out on patients who had recently traveled to China. “We are like Italy last Friday,” health sources from Andalusia explained. “The number of infections could be five, 10 or 100, we just don’t know.” The Andalusian authorities have begun to investigate all of the contact the man from Huelva has had, while the patient himself is being treated in isolation. His condition is not serious. English version by Simon Hunter. https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-02-27/spain-reports-first-locally-transmitted-coronavirus-case.html Edited February 27, 2020 by niman
A 62-year-old man who has been in a Seville hospital for pneumonia since February 20 has been confirmed as the first case of local Covid-19 contagion registered in Spain. The diagnosis is highly significant as it confirms the suspicions of many specialists after the spike in coronavirus cases in Italy: “The virus has been circulating for several days in Spain and we hadn’t detected it,” said the head of infectious diseases at a major Spanish hospital earlier this week. The patient, who is being treated at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville, is from nearby Huelva and has not left Spain in recent weeks, according to the regional government, who suggested that a “meeting held in Málaga” could have been the origin of his infection. By Thursday afternoon a total of 17 cases had been reported in Spain. Of these, 15 were detected this week after hospitals adopted new criteria and began testing pneumonia patients for Covid-19. One patient in the Madrid region is reported to be in serious condition, with the other cases described as mild. The most severe case is a 77-year-old with pre-existing medical conditions who is being treated in a hospital in Torrejón de Ardoz, in the east of Madrid. The sudden increase and the confirmation that the disease is now being transmitted in Spain brings “a new scenario in which the health system and society will have to learn to live with the virus,” said all of the experts consulted by EL PAÍS. “Obviously there have to be fatalities,” said Fernando Simón, director of the Health Ministry’s Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies. “It is not a serious disease, but it is not trivial either. Obviously, if there are cases with risk factors, it is possible that someone will die in our country.” Spain’s eastern Valencia region confirmed its second case of coronavirus on Thursday: a man who was among the 2,500 Valencia soccer club fans who traveled to Milan on February 19 to see their team in a Champions League match. Meanwhile a new infection was also confirmed in Barcelona on Thursday: a 22-year-old woman from Tenerife who had also recently traveled to Milan. A total of four cases were confirmed in Spain on Wednesday, including the man being treated in Seville. But the other three – in Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Island of La Gomera – were, like the previous cases, detected in people who had picked up the infection abroad. The first two cases were discovered in La Gomera on January 31, and on the Balearic Island of Palma de Mallorca on February 9, but both of those patients have since been released from hospital. While the situation is significant, it is not particularly dramatic, the experts say. “Mortality from the coronavirus is relatively low, between 2% and 3%, and it is lower outside of China,” explained Pere Godoy, the president of the Spanish Epidemiology Society. “Its transmissibility, while not negligible, is also not explosive. We’re not going to see hospitals overwhelmed with thousands of sick people. The Spanish health system is amply prepared to deal with whatever is coming.” An example helps to put the problem into perspective. All of the cases diagnosed in Italy until yesterday – 400, most of them light – are approximately the same that any major Spanish hospital would deal with for flu during the annual spike in the illness. The discovery of the local infection in the case of the man from Huelva was no coincidence, but rather thanks to a change in the clinical protocols in Spanish hospitals. After the rise in cases in Italy, health centers in Spain are now actively testing patients who are being treated for pneumonia where the origin of the illness is unclear. Until Monday, such tests were only being carried out on patients who had recently traveled to China. “We are like Italy last Friday,” health sources from Andalusia explained. “The number of infections could be five, 10 or 100, we just don’t know.” The Andalusian authorities have begun to investigate all of the contact the man from Huelva has had, while the patient himself is being treated in isolation. His condition is not serious. English version by Simon Hunter. https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-02-27/spain-reports-first-locally-transmitted-coronavirus-case.html
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