Famous Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda, who lives in northern Spain, has contracted the new coronavirus, health officials from Portugal announced on Sunday.
The author of 70 years felt the first symptoms on February 25 when he had already returned to Asturias, said the general direction of Portuguese health, informed by his Spanish colleague because the writer had stayed in the north of Portugal from February 18 to 23 to participate in a literary festival. The Asturias regional government announced on Saturday that it had detected a first case of coronavirus in a 70-year-old man, but did not identify it.
“The patient is stable. His wife, a 66-year-old woman who also has symptoms, is being tested“, he said, adding that the couple had been admitted to the Central University Hospital of Asturias. On Sunday, the Portuguese health authorities called everyone who had been in”close contact“with Mr. Sepulveda, who participated in the festival”Correntes d’Escritas“organized near Porto, to come forward to its services. Portugal has so far recorded no confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus, while neighboring Spain has at this stage 73 cases from the start of the epidemic.
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