30 Mar, 2020 @ 10:43
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BREAKING: Spain’s leader of health emergencies Fernando Simon ‘tests positive for coronavirus’

Fernando Simon
Fernando Simon
Fernando Simon

THE leader of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies Fernando Simon has tested positive for coronavirus.

The 57-year-old is now waiting for confirmation of his results via a second round of testing after receiving the initial diagnosis last night.

The face of the country’s health battle, who has been giving daily press briefings from the start of the pandemic, had experienced 24 hours of symptoms before being tested.

Simon will not appear at today’s press briefing and skipped a government meeting this morning. 

He will be placed under the care of his office’s top doctor Maria Jose Sierra.

It will be the second-time he has had to self-isolate after he showed symptoms on March 21.

COVID-19 was then ruled out after he tested negative.

The daily update on Spain’s coronavirus battle will take place at 11am.

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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