31 Mar, 2020 @ 14:02
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BREAKING: Psychiatric patient with coronavirus flees from Madrid to Spain’s Costa del Sol

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A MAN has been arrested today for fleeing to the Costa del Sol after testing positive for coronavirus in Madrid. 

The Guardia Civil intercepted the patient in Nerja after he escaped from the Hospital de la Paz in the capital.

The patient was set to be admitted to a psychiatric centre after also testing positive for COVID-19.

A relative alerted the authorities who immediately launched an operation to track him down.

They eventually caught up with him at the Plaza del Chaparil in Nerja.

He was transferred by ambulance to the Comarcal de la Axarquia hospital in Velez Malaga.

It comes as Malaga continues to be the worst-affected province in Andalucia with 1,321 cases.

The southernmost region has a total of 5,405 cases as of Tuesday.

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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