7 Feb, 2020 @ 20:28
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BREAKING: Killer coronavirus feared to have arrived in Spain’s Mallorca as man who had contact with UK patient rushed to hospital with symptoms

Breaking news at The Olive Press

MALLORCA has activated its coronavirus protocol after a man from Marratxi was rushed to hospital with symptoms of the deadly infection. 

The individual had recently been in contact with one of the patients who tested positive in the UK.

He and two people who were travelling with him have been rushed to Son Espases hospital.

His two travelling companions are being kept under close observation.

Several people have been feared to have the virus on the Balearics but none have tested positive.

Since its outbreak in Wuhan, China, more than 600 have died and around 30,000 have become infected.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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