Tenerife hotel with 1000 guests on 'lockdown' after tourist tests positive for coronavirus

Police are reportedly surrounding the hotel in Adeje – named locally as the H10 Costa Adeje Palace – to make sure no-one enters or leaves.

The person infected is an Italian tourist from the country’s Lombardy region. He is believed to have been staying at the hotel for seven days with his wife.

The latest infection comes after it emerged two people infected are being treated at Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

The man went to a local health centre on Monday after feeling unwell for several days. He has since been quarantined at a hospital in the Tenerife’s capital.

Almost 80,000 people - most of them in China - have caught coronavirus and there are fears of a pandemic as Italy reported its seventh death and South Korea's cases doubled.

Britain now has 13 cases.