A man in Mallorca, Spain has been arrested for deliberately infecting at least 22 people with COVID-19 according to the Spanish National Police.
“Despite having symptoms and having done a PCR test, he continued his normal life without waiting for the result or quarantining,” the police said in a tweet on Saturday.
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The police said that the man came to work with a 40°C fever according to his colleagues.
He was coughing loudly all over the place, lowering his facemask, while saying: ‘I’m going to give you all the coronavirus.'”
The man reportedly infected 8 people directly and 14 others indirectly.
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Authorities started the investigation started at the end of January when authorities learned of the existence of a Covid-19 outbreak in a well-known establishment in Manacor.
There have been 3.5 million recorded cases of Covid-19 in Spain. 77,500 died from the disease. (TDT)
