26 Feb, 2020 @ 20:12
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Fears as coronavirus patient in Sevilla is first in Spain to NOT have travelled to ‘at risk’ country or had contact with infected patient

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THE COVID-19 patient in Sevilla is the first in Spain to not have travelled to or from an at risk country or had any contact with an infected individual. 

The 62-year-old man is being held in isolation at the Virgen del Rocio hospital in the centre of the city.

Experts fear this case could mean that the pathogen has been circulating for days or even weeks throughout Spain by carriers who have shown no symptoms.

The other nine cases across Spain have all been ‘imported’ from Italy, the hardest hit country in Europe.

It comes after the government today raised the risk of infection on a local level from ‘low’ to ‘moderate’.

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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