4 Mar, 2020 @ 15:40
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COVID-19: Spain refuses to close schools after three children test positive for coronavirus and number of cases nears 200

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THE number of coronavirus cases in Spain has risen to 196 so far today. 

It comes after three children tested positive and Galicia registered its first ever COVID-19 case.

A four-year-old girl in Madrid became the first child in Spain to test positive.

The young child from the Paraiso Sagrados Corazones school in the capital city tested positive along with her father and mother.

The daughter and father have a little cough while the mother has not shown any symptoms in several days.

The school has already alerted parents and initiated disinfecting protocols.

Elsewhere, a 16-year-old girl tested positive in Girona in Catalunya and as well as two minors from another school in Madrid.

Spain has yet to increase its response level which would require authorities to restrict large gatherings and potentially close schools.

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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