MADRID, Feb 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — All 19 Spanish citizens who were repatriated from China on Jan 31 amid concerns over the Covid-19 epidemic will be discharged from hospital on Thursday after testing negative for the virus, the government said.
They have been under quarantine in a military hospital in Madrid since being evacuated from the epicentre of the virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan on a flight arranged in cooperation with Britain, which brought back 83 of its nationals.
Health authorities have so far confirmed two cases of the virus in Spain – a German citizen in the Canary Islands and a British national on the island of Mallorca.
The World Health Organization has warned that the epidemic poses a global threat while the death toll in China rose to more than 1,300 people on Wednesday. — NNN-AGENCIES
