Three more people test positive for coronavirus at Tenerife hotel

Three more people have tested positive for coronavirus at the four-star Tenerife hotel placed on lockdown after an Italian doctor staying there was confirmed to have the deadly bug, according to new reports.

The doctor’s wife — along with two other people they had been staying with — also tested positive for COVID-19 at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel on the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, Metro UK reported.

The patients are part of a group of 10 people who traveled from Italy’s Lombardy region — where authorities are battling the largest outbreak outside Asia.

After the first test came back positive, health authorities ordered that the around 1,000 guests at the hotel be monitored for infection.

Now, about 100 guests have been given the all-clear to leave because it is not believed they came in contact with the infected group.

“The others will have to be subject to active individual monitoring,” Canary Islands president Angel Victor Torres said at a Tuesday press conference, according to the Evening Standard.

Anyone with symptoms will be “evaluated and will stay in the hotel without leaving their rooms, and depending on the results of the tests and whether they test positive or negative, a further decision would then be taken,” said Domingo Nunez, head of epidemiology at the Canary Islands Health Service, according to the report.

Those who test positive will be hospitalized, according to Nunez.

“The people who are not showing any symptoms can move freely inside the hotel, although under certain conditions such as using the face masks which are now available,” he added. “But they still won’t be able to leave the hotel. Once we have new information, we will come to a consensus with the Ministry of Health about what we’re going to do.”

Those still held in the hotel, including 82-year-old retired British builder Alan Cunliffe, have griped about the situation.

“I’m here for two weeks and was supposed to be going home on Friday,” he told Metro. “I can’t see that happening now. I imagine I’ll be in quarantine for a fortnight when I eventually get back to Britain. I can’t believe it.”

“I can’t leave my room,” he added. “I can go out on my balcony. I haven’t spoken to anyone else in the hotel. I don’t know anyone who’s ill and I feel fine.”

Meanwhile, in Austria, the 108-room Grand Hotel Europa in the Alpine tourist hub of Innsbruck was locked down after an Italian woman who works as a receptionist there contracted the illness, Reuters reported.

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