FRANCE
Number of confirmed cases Covid-19 grows tot 38, 20 new cases today.
Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, announced that France was facing “a significant increase” in the number of cases of contamination by the coronavirus on its territory this Thursday. 38 cases are now confirmed in France.
Spain reports first locally transmitted coronavirus case
A man in the Madrid region is in serious condition as the national tally rises to 17, confirming suspicions that the virus had been circulating for days without being detected
A 62-year-old man who has been in a Seville hospital for pneumonia since February 20 has been confirmed as the first case of local Covid-19 contagion registered in Spain. The diagnosis is highly significant as it confirms the suspicions of many specialists after the spike in coronavirus cases in Italy: “The virus has been circulating for several days in Spain and we hadn’t detected it,” said the head of infectious diseases at a major Spanish hospital earlier this week.