Ninety of the 91 people who had had direct contact with the initial ten protagonists of the outbreak of coronavirus detected in Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria after a family party have tested negative in the PCR tests, reports the Ministry of Health.
However, a new case has been diagnosed, the eleventh of this outbreak, in a person who does not belong to that family nucleus, but is part of the work environment of one of the first ten infected, which will now lead, in turn, to locate the people with whom he has related and test them.
What until now is the most important outbreak of the three that have been detected in the Canary Islands since the state of alarm ended originated in a family party held in Fuerteventura at the end of June, which was also attended by relatives from Gran Canaria.
As a result, five cases of coronavirus emerged in Fuerteventura and another five in Gran Canaria, to which another one is now added, corresponding to the first island.
Regarding its origin, the epidemiologists of the Government of the Canary Islands maintain two main lines of investigation: contact with a person arriving from another country with a high rate of contagion or the entry into that family group of the coronavirus through the social and recreational relations of its youngest members.
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