A vehicle believed to contain French citizens after their evacuation from the Chinese city of Wuhan, arrives at The Vacanciel Holiday Resort in Carry-le-Rouet, near Marseille, southern France on January 31, 2020, following their repatriation from the coro
Madrid: Spain has confirmed the country's first case of coronavirus after a man was diagnosed on the remote island of La Gomera in the Canaries, the Health Ministry said late on Friday (Jan 31).
The patient is part of a group of five people taken into observation on the island and isolated on Thursday after it was found some of them had come into contact with a German man diagnosed with the virus, the ministry said.
The diagnosis from Spain's National Centre for Microbiology came shortly after a plane transporting a group of 27 EU nationals from the virus's epicenter in the Chinese city of Wuhan landed in Madrid.
China detected the mysterious virus for the first time on December 12, 2019, in the city of "Wuhan", and the number of deaths so far reached 259, and 11,791 people were infected, 1795 of them are in serious condition.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency on an international scale to confront the spread of the virus, especially after its spread in several countries. (QNA)
