12 Mar, 2020 @ 13:14
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Spain’s deputy PM Pablo Iglesias in quarantine after wife Irene Montero tests positive for coronavirus

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THE coronavirus pandemic has reached the heart of the Spanish government. 

Deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias is in quarantine after his wife, Minister of Equality Irene Montero, tested positive for COVID-19. 

Now all members of government will today (March 12) be tested for the virus. 

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STRESSFUL: Deputy PM Iglesias in quarantine after his wife Equality Minister Irene Montero (right) tested positive for COVID-19.

A government spokesman said that ‘preventative protocols’ have been in force for several days in parliament buildings, but they will now be stepped up. 

Today’s cabinet meeting will include only ministers considered essential for responding to the crisis. The usual press conference following the meeting will be held remotely with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez answering questions online. 

Sanchez will also hold Saturday’s meeting with Spain’s regional presidents over the internet. 

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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