Overview

• Regional health authorities say 21 patients remain in hospital in stable condition out of 146 people affected.
• Twenty patients are admitted at Hospital Santa Lucía in Cartagena and one at La Arrixaca in El Palmar.
• Patient microbiology confirms salmonella; the hotel’s kitchen is suspended under a protocol that orders disinfection, food sampling, and coprocultures of food handlers.
• Emergency services deployed five units, set up a field clinic at the hotel, and transferred numerous guests after symptoms began following Saturday’s midday meal.
• Inspectors are testing food and environmental samples as guests’ accounts highlight a fish dish and a pasta sauce as suspects, though the specific source has not been identified and some clients are preparing collective claims.