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Guatemala confirms the first case of coronavirus with a traveler from Italy
By Mega Diary
March 14, 2020
The president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, confirmed this Friday the first case of COVID-19 coronavirus in the Central American country, corresponding to a traveler from northern Italy who is already hospitalized in quarantine.
The president confirmed the case at the beginning of a speech in the south of the country, which he interrupted when he received a call informing him of the first case in the country.
"His origin was from northern Italy, he was accompanied by three of his relatives," said the president, who confirmed the transfer of the patient to the Villa Nueva National Hospital, adapted to care for patients with the coronavirus.
Giammattei interrupted a speech in the south of the country when a call entered his phone in which he received the information about the first case. When hanging up, he clarified that he had been told that he is a Guatemalan.
He said that it is "official" that in Guatemala "we have the first case" and clarified: "The good thing is that he has already entered and we are going directly to the hospital, (the patient) is already undergoing treatment."
The president added that on the same flight, "from Aerom?xico, five Salvadorans were coming and they were immediately forwarded to their country of origin."
In the afternoon, the president offered to spread a message on the national network and stressed that "it is time to deal, it is not time to worry, that we do not panic, that we have to act with sanity, with measure and continue with the measures preventive measures that had been so successful to this day ”.
Guatemala confirms the first case of coronavirus with a traveler from Italy
By Mega Diary
March 14, 2020
The president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, confirmed this Friday the first case of COVID-19 coronavirus in the Central American country, corresponding to a traveler from northern Italy who is already hospitalized in quarantine.
The president confirmed the case at the beginning of a speech in the south of the country, which he interrupted when he received a call informing him of the first case in the country.
"His origin was from northern Italy, he was accompanied by three of his relatives," said the president, who confirmed the transfer of the patient to the Villa Nueva National Hospital, adapted to care for patients with the coronavirus.
Giammattei interrupted a speech in the south of the country when a call entered his phone in which he received the information about the first case. When hanging up, he clarified that he had been told that he is a Guatemalan.
He said that it is "official" that in Guatemala "we have the first case" and clarified: "The good thing is that he has already entered and we are going directly to the hospital, (the patient) is already undergoing treatment."
The president added that on the same flight, "from Aerom?xico, five Salvadorans were coming and they were immediately forwarded to their country of origin."
In the afternoon, the president offered to spread a message on the national network and stressed that "it is time to deal, it is not time to worry, that we do not panic, that we have to act with sanity, with measure and continue with the measures preventive measures that had been so successful to this day ”.
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