MADRID (Reuters) - When Spain's first case of coronavirus was recorded on Jan. 31 - a German tourist in La Gomera, one of the remote Canary Islands - there seemed little cause for concern.
"We believe that Spain will have, at most, not more than a few diagnosed cases," Fernando Simon, the country's health emergency chief, told reporters.
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