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The deputy director of the Madrid health department, Antonio Zapatero, said that on December 26, four cases of contagion by the new strain of coronavirus were confirmed in Spain. Three more probable cases are being investigated.
In Madrid, at least four cases of infection by a new strain of coronavirus were detected, which were found in the United Kingdom in mid-December. This was announced on December 26 by the deputy director of the Madrid health department, Antonio Zapatero, according to El Mundo.
According to him, the three infected are members of the same family: father, mother and sister, his relative recently arrived from Great Britain, but their infection has not yet been confirmed. The fourth case is not related to this family. It was recorded by a 20-year-old citizen who flew in from London on December 20.
Zapatero pointed out that these confirmed cases are the first to be found in Spain. Three more probable cases of infection with the new strain are being studied.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic in Spain, more than 1.8 million people have been infected by the coronavirus, of which more than 49.8 thousand have died.
The identification of a new type of coronavirus, hence the rate of spread of the disease in some parts of the UK, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock announced on December 15. By then, more than 1,000 cases of infection with a new type of virus had been confirmed in the country in 60 regions of the country.
Britain’s chief health doctor, British government advisor on medicine Chris Whitty spoke about the high rate of spread of a new type of coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new strain could be 70% more infectious. At the same time, according to Whitty, there is currently no evidence that the new strain of coronavirus causes a higher death rate.
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