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Coronavirus: "The risk of introduction into France is low but it cannot be excluded", according to Agn?s Buzyn
While the United States announces a first patient, the Minister of Health, Agn?s Buzyn, wanted to reassure this Tuesday evening: the only suspected French case turned out to be negative.
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By Florence M?r?o
January 21, 2020 at 10:34 p.m.
A few days after a stay in Wuhan, the French citizen presented with respiratory symptoms. He was taken into care in an infectious diseases department, passed a battery of examinations and was placed in solitary confinement. But virological tests have spoken: they are negative for the coronavirus, the virus that has been raging in China since the end of December. Since then, the patient has returned home and the authorities, they say:“there is no case in France. "
They said it with one voice this Tuesday evening during a press conference organized at the Ministry of Health to make a "point of stage" on this "2019 - nCoV", nickname given to the virus which worries the worldwide, with 291 confirmed cases, six deaths, and cases exported notably to Japan and South Korea. US health officials also announced on Tuesday the hospitalization of a man in his thirties in Everett, near Seattle, after contracting the Chinese coronavirus.
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"We are at the beginning of the epidemic, the situation is very changing," concedes Agn?s Buzyn. Micro in hand, the Minister of Health ensures: “The risk of introduction (Editor's note: of the virus) in France is low but it cannot be excluded. Hence the dissemination of precautionary messages on direct planes to Wuhan, an agglomeration of eleven million inhabitants located in central China and the epicenter of the epidemic.
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But above all, the Minister, the Director General of Health, an expert from Public Health France and a doctor of international renown wanted this Tuesday evening to reassure on the capacities of the Hexagon to face possible cases which would be confirmed in the country.
"The system is well established," says Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of the infectious diseases department at the Parisian hospital Bichat. On an individual basis, any person for whom a doubt hangs would be placed in isolation with a daily follow-up of fourteen days, while, on the epidemiological level, the persons who came into contact with it would be listed. "We will communicate transparently, if a case is proven," promises J?r?me Salomon, Director General of Health.
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http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/san...20-8241345.php
Coronavirus: "The risk of introduction into France is low but it cannot be excluded", according to Agn?s Buzyn
While the United States announces a first patient, the Minister of Health, Agn?s Buzyn, wanted to reassure this Tuesday evening: the only suspected French case turned out to be negative.
...
By Florence M?r?o
January 21, 2020 at 10:34 p.m.
A few days after a stay in Wuhan, the French citizen presented with respiratory symptoms. He was taken into care in an infectious diseases department, passed a battery of examinations and was placed in solitary confinement. But virological tests have spoken: they are negative for the coronavirus, the virus that has been raging in China since the end of December. Since then, the patient has returned home and the authorities, they say:“there is no case in France. "
They said it with one voice this Tuesday evening during a press conference organized at the Ministry of Health to make a "point of stage" on this "2019 - nCoV", nickname given to the virus which worries the worldwide, with 291 confirmed cases, six deaths, and cases exported notably to Japan and South Korea. US health officials also announced on Tuesday the hospitalization of a man in his thirties in Everett, near Seattle, after contracting the Chinese coronavirus.
...
"We are at the beginning of the epidemic, the situation is very changing," concedes Agn?s Buzyn. Micro in hand, the Minister of Health ensures: “The risk of introduction (Editor's note: of the virus) in France is low but it cannot be excluded. Hence the dissemination of precautionary messages on direct planes to Wuhan, an agglomeration of eleven million inhabitants located in central China and the epicenter of the epidemic.
...
But above all, the Minister, the Director General of Health, an expert from Public Health France and a doctor of international renown wanted this Tuesday evening to reassure on the capacities of the Hexagon to face possible cases which would be confirmed in the country.
"The system is well established," says Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of the infectious diseases department at the Parisian hospital Bichat. On an individual basis, any person for whom a doubt hangs would be placed in isolation with a daily follow-up of fourteen days, while, on the epidemiological level, the persons who came into contact with it would be listed. "We will communicate transparently, if a case is proven," promises J?r?me Salomon, Director General of Health.
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http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/san...20-8241345.php
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