88,000 hit by virus: a summary of the news
I will be
passing over the live blog to my colleague shortly, so here is a summary of
updates so far. There have now been 80,000 people hit by the virus.
A hotel in
Tenerife, part of the Canary islands – where an Italian man who has tested
positive for coronavirus was staying – has been put on lockdown. One thousand
guests at the hotel have also been placed in isolation to halt any further
spread of the disease. The H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel on the south of the
island is under quarantine and it was reported that police were “ensuring that
none of the customers staying at the hotel left or entered the hotel”.
Travellers
returning to the UK from northern Italy may need to self-isolate as part of
measures to stop the spread of coronavirus, the health secretary, Matt Hancock,
said. He said that official advice, updated on Tuesday, had been changed to say
that those who have been to northern Italy, north of Pisa, should self-isolate
if they develop flu-like symptoms on their return to the UK.
Hancock
also said Britons who have been in lockdown regions of Italy, including those
in the Lombardy and Veneto region, should self-isolate at home for 14 days even
if they have no symptoms.
In Iran,
the death toll due to the coronavirus has reached 16, a health ministry official
told state TV on Tuesday. Iran has the highest number of deaths from
coronavirus outside China, where the virus emerged late last year.
Four new
cases of coronavirus have been detected in Iraq in Kirkuk province, the health
ministry said. This means there are now five cases in the country.
Italian
authorities announced on Tuesday the first positive coronavirus case in the
south of Italy. A woman from Bergamo, who was on holiday with her friends in
Sicily, has tested positive for Covid-19. The patient, who is not in a serious
condition, has been transferred to the Hospital Cervello in Palermo.
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