10 Mar, 2020 @ 18:50
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BREAKING: Tourists quarantined at hotel on Spain’s Costa del Sol after catching coronavirus from tour guide

Breaking news at The Olive Press

NINE tourists have been quarantined at a Costa del Sol hotel after testing positive for coronavirus. 

The holidaymakers, mostly from the US, are being isolated at the Sol Don de Torremolinos after being infected by their tour guide, reported Diario Sur. 

None of the group have yet to show symptoms but will be held at the hotel for 14 days and will be forbidden contact with other guests. 

The group had been staying at the Hotel Don Pablo but have been transferred to the Sol Don, which was closed ahead of high season. 

The hotel said it will be business as usual ‘according to the protocols established globally by Melia Hotels International’. 

The tourists are being served food on trays so as to maintain no contact with hotel staff. 

They will all receive follow-up care by health professionals. 

When the Olive Press contacted the hotel earlier today to confirm the outbreak following a tip off, a worker there denied all knowledge of the infections. 

More to follow…

 

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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