The man, described as middle-aged, has been admitted to an isolation room in the Can Misses hospital in Ibiza town where his condition has been described as “good”. He is from northern Italy and presented symptoms when he was visiting the Balearic island. He had notified the 061 health emergency service that he had a fever and a cough.

Efforts are now being made to trace everyone he has been in close contact with. They will then be kept under surveillance in case they have been infected.

This case in Ibiza is the seventh of Covid-19 in the Balearic Islands, with the first six all recorded in Mallorca.

One of them, a British woman, has already recovered and the rest are being treated in different health centres. In Menorca, no cases have been registered.

In the Canaries, there are now 12 confirmed cases of the virus, virtually all of them Italians.

Six are Italian tourists within the same group who were staying at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel in Tenerife which has been subject to a lockdown; two people in the historic city of La Laguna in the north of the island (an Italian who travelled back to his country and a close contact) and four Italian citizens in Gran Canaria.

All are well and not in danger.

Of the original 723 people who were quarantined in the Tenerife hotel since February 24th, 443 have now left, including Brits who are being bused to the south airport on a phased basis once they have tested negative 24 hours before departure.

Spain currently has 374 confirmed cases of coronavirus and there have been six deaths.

Government leaders are concerned about the effect on tourism, especially with Easter coming up, but stress the country is as safe as all other places going through the same situations and Spain has “a first-class health service perfectly capable of coping”.