By Cathy Elelman • Published: 05 Jul 2020 • 13:10
IDENTIFIED: A medical team discovered the first case during triage and the second from a PCR test. CREDIT: mattthewafflecat on Pixabay
TWO illegal immigrants rescued while trying to reach the Costa Almeria coast in a small boat last weekend have been put into isolation in the El Toyo High Resolution Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19. According to reports the two Algerians were transferred to the hospital on Friday night and put into an area where there are no other patients. The first case was identified during the triage carried out by the Red Cross’s ERIE Emergencies Immediate Response Service after Maritime Rescue took the 11 occupants of the boat to Almeria city port. PCR tests were subsequently carried out on the other 10, one coming up positive for the virus.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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