“I will infect you all”: went to the gym, to work and infected 22 people with coronavirus | the Chronicle

A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Palma de Mallorca, Spain for infecting 22 people with coronavirus, after going to work and going to the gym despite knowing he had symptoms of the diseaselocal police reported last Saturday.

At the end of January, the police of the Spanish island An investigation has started after detecting an epidemic in the city of Manacor and receive reports on “a worker who had been infected and hid his illness“he said in a statement.

Loaded as “alleged perpetrator of a felony of injury allegedly due to infecting 22 people with Covid-19, eight of them directly and 14 indirectly, both at their workplace and at the gym where they attended surrendered, both in the Balearic city“explained the Spanish police.

Days before the outbreak was detected in the city, the man had shown symptoms, which worried his colleagues. The accused refused to return home despite the warnings.

Yes OK a PCR test was done, she did not wait for the result, and the next day she not only returned to work, but also went to the gym.

Although he was warned by the principal and his colleagues that he could infect others with his presence, he ignored them and went on like nothing. Coughing and lowering his mask he said: “OI will infect everyone with the coronavirus“, as reported by the police.

When the test result came back positive, his colleagues also had to be screened for which five tested positive which in turn infected several of their relatives, including three one-year-old babies.

At the gym he attended, three other people who had been in direct contact with the man tested positive disease and passed the virus on to loved ones.

For such reasons the man was arrested as an alleged perpetrator of a felony of personal injury and was brought to justice. Police reported that Due to their behavior, there were a total of 22 infections, although none required hospital treatment.