The total number of confirmed cases was 11.[43] March 17: Another case was announced in the city of Santa Cruz, a patient who had recently been to Spain, for a total of 12 confirmed cases in the country.[44] March 19: In the morning, the health minister Aníbal Cruz, reported three new cases of contagion, two of them imported and one local.[45] Until then, there were 15 confirmed cases of Coronavirus.