According to a report by the health department of Canari Region of Spain on January 11th local time, the first concentrated outbreak of the epidemic on the island of Grassiosa in the region since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pneumonia has occurred.
At present, three confirmed cases and 47 people in close contact with it have been quarantined.
With a resident population of only 737, the island recorded no confirmed cases of COVID-19 during Spain’s first state of emergency in 2020 and became the first region to take downgrading measures during the downgrade of the Spanish state of emergency.
In the summer of 2020, a tourist who traveled to the island was quarantined due to the diagnosis of COVID-19, but until the outbreak, no more than three confirmed cases of COVID-19 had been found on the island.
