The woman admitted in Alicante with suspected hantavirus tests negative in the PCR

The PCR performed by the National Microbiology Center on the citizen who remains admitted to a hospital in Alicante has tested negative for hantavirus, government and Conselleria de Sanidad sources have reported.

In accordance with the established protocol, a second diagnostic test is planned to be performed 24 hours after the confirmation of the result, and the diagnosis will be available between 24 and 48 hours later.

If this second test is also negative, the patient will be considered a contact in quarantine and will be transferred to the Central Hospital of Defense Gómez Ulla in Madrid.

In the event that the PCR test is positive, the woman would be evacuated to the High-Level Isolation and Treatment Unit of La Fe Hospital in Valencia.

This is the first person admitted to Spain with suspected hantavirus, a 32-year-old woman, who remains in the San Juan de Alicante University Hospital with mild symptoms and episodes of cough.

Health sources informed EFE this Saturday that the woman remains in the same negative pressure isolation room in the Pneumology area since her arrival from her home this Friday.

The woman resides in Playa de San Juan de Alicante and is being monitored for presenting mild symptoms after traveling on the plane from which a Dutch woman was evacuated, who had traveled on the cruise ship MV Hondius and who subsequently died of hantavirus.

The woman remains stable with mild respiratory symptoms, mainly related to cough and without new symptoms, the Conselleria has stated.

After receiving an alert through the European Alert System, the Directorate General of Public Health of the Conselleria de Sanidad contacted the woman on Friday, in coordination with the Ministry of Health.

Subsequently, the woman was transferred from her home to the hospital in an ambulance equipped with the safety mechanisms established for these cases.

Upon arrival at the hospital, she was taken to the corresponding room, maintaining her isolation in a negative pressure capsule and transported via a safe circuit separate from other patients and professionals, thus ensuring safety at all times, the same sources assured.

The Conselleria de Sanidad sent the sample taken from the woman that same afternoon to the National Microbiology Center on Friday night, and it has tested negative.