BREAKING: Potential coronavirus patient isolated in Spain's Sevilla and Cadiz

A PATIENT has been isolated for a potential coronavirus infection in Sevilla.

The individual is being held at the Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena in the centre of the Andalucian capital.

No details of the patient have been released.

It comes as the coronavirus protocol has also been activated at the Hospital Universitario de Puerto Real in Cadiz.

No information has been released on that individual either.

If either test positive they will be the first confirmed case in Spain’s southernmost region.

It comes after a case was confirmed in Barcelona earlier today.

Meanwhile, hundreds of tourists are being held in quarantine at a hotel in Tenerife after an Italian doctor who was staying there for a week-long holiday with his wife tested positive for the virus.

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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.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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