Before a Meeting of European health Ministers in Rome to the Coronavirus, the situation in several countries has worsened.
On the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife is a large Hotel has been made following a confirmed Sars-CoV-2-case, is practically under quarantine.
Around 1000 tourists were affected in the town of Adeje in the southwest of the Canary island by the measure, reported the Spanish television on Tuesday.
Including German are probably. The Hotel will be guarded by the police, until all the people had been tested in the fact, according to the newspaper “El Mundo”. Also, Austria and Croatia reported the first proven Coronavirus cases.
Only a hotel guest tested positive
On Tenerife, a visitor from Italy had been tested positive for the new Virus, as the Spanish health Ministry announced.
The man is reported to be a 69-Year-old from Lombardy. The Region is at the Moment, most of the Virus affected area in the North of Italy.
The man had made with his wife on holiday in Tenerife, was now isolated in a hospital on the island.
Spanish media reports suggest that the Italians should have made a doctor from the Lombardy for nearly a week in the Hotel before he showed symptoms and then to the hospital came to pass.
Possible infection are not excluded
“We have to assume that under the of the quarantine measures Affected German nationals are,” it said on Tuesday from the German Federal foreign office.
You have implemented all the recommendations of the authorities to ensure the safety and welfare of customers and employees, informed the affected Hotel H10 Costa Adeje Palace.
According to a report by the television channel Antena 3, the hotel guests were asked to remain in their rooms. Doctors will examine the guest on the spot. “There are all nervous, and the Situation is complicated”, quoting the Sender, an employee of the hotel.
The epidemic arrived in Europe
In the afternoon, the Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) wanted to meet in Rome with his counterparts from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Croatia, France, and EU health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides.
It is expected that the Minister advise how you react to the spread of Sars-CoV-2. Spahn had said on Monday, a Virus, do on country borders. “The Corona epidemic has arrived as an epidemic in Europe.”
In Italy, the spread of the pathogen is demonstrated – in spite of drastic measures – in more and more regions. In Sicily there is the first case in southern Italy, said civil defense chief Angelo Borrelli on Tuesday in Rome.
Also in South Tyrol, an Infected person was discovered in the Tuscan two.
Italy, the most affected
Overall, the number of infected in Italy rose to around 280, on the eve of it were a little more than 220. How it could come to such a rapid outbreak is still not known.
Most of the Ill reports of the Northern Region of Lombardy, followed by Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Lazio.
Italy is currently the country with the most cases recorded in Europe. In the particularly hard-hit Lombardy in ten municipalities in the province of Lodi have been declared restricted zones. There, security control forces, who can come in and out.
The risk of infection with the Virus, according to a new ECDC evaluation for Europeans currently “low to moderate”. As a “moderate to high” estimates the center of the risk that cases such as that currently in Italy and elsewhere.
First fell Ill in Austria and Croatia
In Austria, the first two people have been tested positive for the pathogen. The Tyrol, the country’s chief Guenther Platter said on Tuesday to the Austrian news Agency APA.
A affected Person come apparently from the Lombardy region. The two 24-Year-olds were not life-threatening illnesses, but suffered so far, just a fever. The patients had turned to the Leitstelle Tirol and their symptoms described.
In Croatia the infection has been demonstrated in the case of a man who had previously been some days in Italy. He’s on hold with mild symptoms in a hospital in Zagreb, said the Prime Minister, Andrej Plenkovic, on Tuesday.
More Dead in China
Meanwhile, the situation in China remains tense. The Beijing health Commission, announced on Tuesday, and a further 71 people were killed. The total number of victims in China increased to 2663.
The number of proven infections climbed to 508 on 77.658. Since a Change in the method of counting, just over a week ago, the daily increase in new infections has been reduced in China.
Experts, however, is more of a high dark number.
In South Korea, the number of new infections, increased evidence of more within 24 hours to 144 cases, now 977. The number of deaths rose to ten.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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