He had symptoms, he went to work and to the gym and infected 22 people in Mallorca: he was arrested

MANACOR.- “I’m going to infect them all.” The warning has become a reality in Spain. 40 year old man He was arrested in Manacor, on the island of Mallorca, by the national police accused of infect 22 people with coronavirus, eight of them directly and 14 others indirectly (including three babies), both in his work as in the gym he went to.

According to information in the Spanish press, the suspect, with symptoms and a fever of 40 ° C, lowered his chin strap and coughed threatening: “I will spread the coronavirus to everyone”.

Police reported on Saturday that the investigation began in late January when officers learned of the existence of a coronavirus outbreak at a well-known Manacor facility where, apparently, a worker had been infected and hid his illness, said the daily ABC.

A few days before the revelation of the epidemic, the employee started showing symptoms consistent with the coronavirus, so his colleagues began to worry, and feared he could infect them. However, the man – whose name has not been revealed – he didn’t want to go home.

After his work day was over, he went to a medical center to do a PCR test. However, he returned to his gym and workstation the next day, he reported. ABC. The companions and the director of the establishment ordered him to return home, but the man ignored him. As he told the police, the inmate had a fever over 40 ° C. At the end of his day, they informed him that the PCR result had been positive.

When all workers are summoned to perform the test, five of them tested positive, which in turn infected several of their relatives, including three babies as young as one year old. Additionally, in the gym he attended, three people were directly infected, who in turn infected several loved ones, adding a total of 22 infected.

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