25 Feb, 2020 @ 23:15
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BREAKING: Coronavirus reaches Spain’s Madrid as young patient who returned from Italy tests positive

Breaking news at The Olive Press

CORONAVIRUS has reached Spain’s capital. 

A 24-year-old has tested positive for COVID-19 in Madrid after returning from a holiday in Italy.

The individual is said to be in a good condition and has been isolated at the Hospital Carlos III.

It brings the total number of confirmed cases in Spain to five.

This includes the Italian doctor and his wife in Tenerife and a patient in both Barcelona and Castellon.

There have been several false alarms across the country, including two family members in Malaga on the Costa del Sol.

There are two further patients awaiting test results in isolation in Sevilla and Cadiz.

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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