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John and Susan Cooper died on vacation at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in the Egyptian seaside resort of the Red Sea in Hurghada.
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The Egyptian resort where a British couple died last month has been found to have "a high rate of E. coli and staph bacteria," a travel agency said Wednesday.
Thomas Cook, a UK travel agency operating around the world, said specialists investigating the Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel in Egypt's Red Sea Resort in Hurghada have found that "food standards and according to Sky News.
"It is clear from these results that a problem occurred in August at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Hurghada and that the standards are lower than what we expect from our hotel partners," the company said in a statement. "It is likely that the presence of E. coli and staphylococci would explain the high level of reported illness among hotel guests during this period."
The test results, however, do not reveal what caused the death of John, 69, and Susan Cooper, 63, on August 21, during his vacation. The deaths prompted the travel company to evacuate 300 guests from the hotel as a precaution.
Tour operator Thomas Cook has evacuated all its guests from the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Egypt's Red Sea Resort, after two Britons died there this week in unclear circumstances.
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The couple's daughter, Kelly Ormerod, said she was wary because her parents had spent perfect hours before dying. Earlier, she told Sky News that her father, John Cooper, had died in her room while her mother had died after being taken to the hospital.
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"I think when they came back into that room that night, there was something in that room that killed them – they inhaled something that poisoned them," she said. at Sky News last month. "I can only have my opinion about what's going on, but there is something that happened in this room that killed my parents."
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The travel agency said on Wednesday that tests conducted by experts showed normal levels of carbon monoxide near the couple's room and normal levels of chlorine in the pool, but that Egyptian authorities were still investigating the room. hotel.
Major-General Ahmed Abdullah, governor of the Egyptian Red Sea Region, where the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel is located, had previously said: "There was a strange smell in the room".
The Egyptian authorities rejected the criminal motives as being behind the deaths. An official statement from the Red Sea Governorate after death said that a first medical examination of John Cooper had shown that he had suffered an acute circulatory collapse and sudden cardiac arrest. Susan Cooper then fainted and was rushed to the hospital, where resuscitation attempts lasted half an hour.
