Hotel in Spain’s Canary Islands with hundreds of guest locked down

Madrid: A hotel in Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands has been locked down after a visiting Italian doctor tested positive for coronavirus, the media reported. Hundreds of guests at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel were initially told to stay in their rooms as medical tests were carried out, the BBC reported on Tuesday citing the Spanish media.

The doctor is reportedly from the Lombardy region, where Italian authorities are battling an outbreak. A leading Spanish newspaper quoted police sources as saying health authorities had ordered the monitoring of guests at the four-star hotel on the island.

One guest on Facebook posted an image of a note put under the door of their room on Tuesday saying: “We regret to inform you that for health reasons, the hotel has been closed down. Until the sanitary authorities warn, you must remain in your rooms.” Another guest, John Turton, told the BBC he and his wife had seen the note but then heard people walking outside and heading to breakfast. Global cases of the virus have passed 80,000, the vast majority in China.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the world should do more to prepare for a possible pandemic — a situation where an infectious disease spreads easily between people in many countries. (IANS)

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