British woman tests positive for coronavirus at Tenerife hotel: Sixth case at quarantined resort is revealed to be UK tourist who is now recovering in hospital
- Canary Islands authorities say the British holidaymaker tested positive yesterday
- She is now in hospital after she was taken out of the H10 Costa Adeje Palace
- Dozens of UK tourists have already returned to the UK after testing negative
A British woman has tested positive for coronavirus at the Tenerife hotel where hundreds of tourists were placed in quarantine last week.
Canary Islands authorities say the British holidaymaker was confirmed as a virus patient yesterday and is now in hospital.
She becomes the sixth person to be infected at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace, following five Italians including the doctor and his wife who first sparked the scare.
Authorities are now trying to work out how the infection could have occurred. Dozens of Britons have already returned to the UK after testing negative.
A British woman has tested positive for coronavirus at the Tenerife hotel (pictured) where hundreds of tourists were placed in quarantine last week
Tourists look through a window of the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel, which was placed on lockdown over a virus scare last week
A bus carrying British tourists coming from the H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel to the airport yesterday afternoon
The sixth case was announced yesterday and confirmed by the BBC and Sky News today to be a British holidaymaker.
A spokesman for the regional health authority confirmed yesterday evening: ‘This latest case is a guest at the hotel who was being monitored but does not belong to the initial group of Italians.
‘An investigation is underway to determine the source of the infection.
‘As with the other five, this person has been transferred to a hospital to be quarantined.
‘The other people who have tested positive remains in a good state of health.’
A sixth person has tested positive for coronavirus at the Tenerife hotel where British holidaymakers have been trapped (guest gives the thumbs up from the window of the hotel)
It came as Britons cleared of infection were free to leave and landed at Manchester airport last night
Regional health chiefs also confirmed 193 people had left the hotel by 6pm local time yesterday.
They include locals living on the island and foreign holidaymakers who had tested negative for coronavirus and were showing no symptoms of the virus.
British holidaymakers who checked into the H10 Costa Adeje Palace after the first Italians to test positive were taken to hospital, were given permission to start leaving on Thursday.
Tour operators Jet2 and Tui both arranged flights for their customers who had tested negative to return home.
Passengers on flight LS9010 from Tenerife landed at Manchester last night, and were pictured walking through arrivals wearing face masks.
The tourists had expected to be stuck in the resort until March 10 after four guests were found to be infected, but have now been allowed to leave.
Britons have been advised to ‘self-isolate’ in the UK until March 10 anyway, but are not being taken into quarantine in the Wirral – unlike British returnees from China and the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
One of the confirmed cases in the UK, a parent at a Buxton primary school in Derbyshire, is known to have contracted the virus in Tenerife.
Passengers on flight LS9010 from Tenerife landed at Manchester last night, and were pictured walking through arrivals wearing face masks
On Sunday regional health chiefs said tourists who checked in after February 24 could leave as long as they fulfilled three key conditions which included their home countries ‘guaranteeing’ their safe return and their continued monitoring (arrivals at Manchester airport last night)
Regional health chiefs said on Sunday that tourists who checked in after February 24 could leave as long as they fulfilled three key conditions which included their home countries ‘guaranteeing’ their safe return and their continued monitoring.
A spokesman on the island said: ‘They can leave the hotel and fly home as long as they fulfil these three conditions.
‘The conditions are that they must be showing no symptoms of the virus, test negative in an analysis carried out 24 hours earlier, and their home nations must establish their return mechanisms and guarantee the continuity of their treatment once they return.’
More than 120 people now have coronavirus in Spain. Madrid is the worst affected area with 29 cases.