COVID-19 pandemic in Gibraltar
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Gibraltar began on March 4, 2020 when an immigrant from northern Italy was forced to self-isolate. On May 27, a total of 157 infected people were counted, 147 of them had recovered and of the ten sick there are three residents of Gibraltar and seven cross-border commuters. Gibraltar has a population of about 35,000 and is a British overseas territory located on the Iberian Peninsula .
background
The pandemic started in China in December 2019 and affects the novel disease COVID-19. This is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Coronaviridae group and belongs to the group of respiratory diseases . From March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic.
course
On March 4, 2020, a northern Italian who entered Gibraltar via Málaga Airport in Spain went into self-isolation and was released on March 7, because the test was negative. On March 7, 2020, 63 people were in self-isolation.
Gibraltar prepared with its Florence Nightingale field hospital for the treatment of COVID-19 infected with 192 beds made available. The hospital has a total capacity of 300 beds and the Government of Gibraltar hopes it never has to use it. On April 3, it became known that a 51-year-old man who had been in self-isolation for three weeks had presumably died of COVID-19. However, there was no final proof of this as he was sick several times.
Web links
- World Health Organization (WHO): Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports on the website www.who.int (English)
- Johns Hopkins CSSE : Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases. (English)
- Website World of Meters : real-time data of the Corona virus pandemic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Actualización de los datos sobre Covid-19 a mediodía del miércoles, 27 de mayo de 2020 (Spanish). In: InfoGibraltar from May 27, 2020
- ↑ What is Covid-19? . In: Pulmonologists in the network from April 4, 2020
- ↑ "Deeply concerned": WHO speaks of corona pandemic . In: Tagesschau from April 14, 2020
- ↑ Thomas Diexter: Politicians respond to Coronavirus case in Gibraltar . In: Olive Press News of March 4, 2020
- ↑ First Covid-19 patient in Gibraltar is given the all clear (English). In: Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation of March 8, 2020
- ↑ Debbie Bartlett: Field hospital ready as Gibraltar mourns possible virus victim (English). In: Sarinenglish of April 3, 2020
