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France - COVID-19: 363,350 cases, 30,893 deaths?

Translation Google

Coronavirus: a fifth confirmed case in France, two patients in intensive care

The Minister of Health, Agn?s Buzyn, announced this Wednesday evening a fifth confirmed case of the new coronavirus in France. It is the daughter of the 80-year-old Chinese man hospitalized in Paris.

By Le Parisien
On January 29, 2020 at 8:21 p.m. , as amended on January 29, 2020 at 20:39

The epidemic continues to spread. The Minister of Health, Agn?s Buzyn, confirmed on Wednesday a fifth proven case of the new coronavirus on French soil. She is the daughter of the fourth case, the 80-year-old Chinese tourist . "In serious condition", they both were placed in intensive care.

This man had arrived in France "on January 23" and first consulted the emergency room of the European Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris on Saturday 25. He was not initially detained, however.

"He had a fever but no cough or respiratory signs, he did not come from Wuhan (epicenter of the epidemic in China, editor's note) but from a city 400 kilometers north: he was far from the criteria and n 'was not selected as a possible case' of coronavirus infection, said Professor Yazdanpanah earlier today.

As of Wednesday morning, tests were underway to confirm her daughter's symptoms.

A first flight with 200 people

The Minister of Health gave details on the repatriation of the French who would not show any symptoms. “A first flight leaves this evening, with a medical team of around twenty people. This flight is a military flight, it will bring back to French territory about 200 people on Friday during the day ”.

She also specified that "these people would be transferred to a place and put in confinement for 14 days, the time of incubation of the virus".

http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/co...atients-en-reanimation-29-01-2020-8247900.php
 
Translation Google

Coronavirus in France: a sixth confirmed case

01/30/2020 at 7.20pm

A sixth case of contamination, a liberal doctor in contact with an Asian case, was detected on French territory on Thursday.

Health Director J?r?me Salomon announced on Thursday that a sixth case of coronavirus had been confirmed in France.

"He is a liberal doctor who was in contact with a case which was later confirmed in Asia," said J?r?me Salomon, adding that he was hospitalized in a Paris hospital.

"He quickly isolated himself, the epidemiological investigation into possible contacts is underway today. I would like to point out that this alert was given by the confirmation of a case by an Asian country," he said. added. "Communication between Asia and the French health authorities is excellent, so there is international coordination of 'contact tracing': we call each other between countries to report cases".
...
https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/coronavi...e-1849755.html
 
France confirms first human-to-human coronavirus case

31 January 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron said France was on "extreme alert" for the coronavirus as health authorities confirmed that a doctor had become the first case of human-to-human transmission in France.

A sixth coronavirus case was detected in France on Thursday, French health authorities have confirmed.

This was the first confirmed case of the coronavirus being transmitted between humans in France, according to the health authorities.

The sixth patient infected by the virus is a doctor who had treated an ill patient. The patient then returned to Asia where it was only then confirmed that they were infected with the virus.

The doctor has been hospitalised and his state is currently "not worrying", according to health authorities.

French authorities said they were working on mapping his whereabouts to detect potential further cases.

"We are on the highest alert possible," President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, as he promised that the "entire government" had been mobilised to deal with the virus infection.
 
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Translation Google


New coronavirus: the first returnees arrived in France

By AFP,
published on 1/31/2020 at 1:49 p.m., updated at 1:49 p.m.
...
Istres - They arrived in France: about 200 French and some foreigners, repatriated from China to flee the coronavirus, landed Friday on the military base of Istres and were then to be confined for two weeks in a holiday center by the sea, in Carry-le-Rouet.
...
On their arrival, these repatriates, mostly French, and some foreigners, including Chinese Chinese spouses, were greeted on the tarmac by the Minister of Health Agn?s Buzyn. About ten meters from them, behind a ribbon, she assured that she would have liked to shake their hand, but that circumstances prevented her.
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The Minister also clarified that outside visits would be prohibited when they are confined in the vacation center but that they could receive packages.

In Carry-le-Rouet, the Club Vacanciel, surrounded by a large pine forest, is located in a cove accessible only by a narrow dead end of the small seaside resort of 5.800 inhabitants, about thirty kilometers from Marseille. As of Friday morning, its access was prohibited by many gendarmes.
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About 80 medical reservists, "taking turns in teams", will be mobilized within the center, "for a period of two weeks renewable once," said a decree published overnight.

During their period of isolation, returnees will be subject to medical surveillance to ensure that they are not infected with the virus. "We are going to ask them to take their temperature, to have a mask."
...
In France, a sixth case of infection with the new coronavirus has been detected, authorities said on Thursday: it is the "first case announced" of contamination on French soil, said the Directorate General of Health (DGS). to AFP. A "liberal doctor" contaminated in France by a person then returned to China, where she declared the disease, said Professor Salomon.

The doctor was hospitalized "in isolation" in Paris and "his condition does not inspire concern", according to Professor Salomon.

Apart from China, these cases of direct contagion between humans have already been observed in Vietnam, Germany, Japan and the United States.

The European Commission said on Tuesday that a second repatriation flight was planned "later in the week" to evacuate other French nationals and nationals of other European countries.
...
Air France has suspended all scheduled flights to and from mainland China until February 9. The Chinese New Year parade scheduled for Sunday in Paris has been postponed until the spring.

"We are in the most extreme vigilance," said President Emmanuel Macron.

https://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/...iers-rapatries-arrives-en-france_2116931.html

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Coronavirus: one of the French repatriated from China presents "symptoms"

A passenger on the plane from Wuhan was transferred upon landing to the Timone hospital in Marseille.

By LP with AFP
On January 31, 2020 at 14h57 , modified January 31, 2020 at 15:00

One of the French returnees from China who arrived in France this Friday afternoon has "symptoms" of the disease, says the Ministry of Health.

"This person was directly transferred to the Timone hospital and he will obviously be tested," said Agn?s Buzyn the minister during a press conference at Marignane airport (Bouches-du-Rh?ne). In the early afternoon, the Minister of Health welcomed the 180 passengers from Wuhan to the Istres military base.
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http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/co...presente-des-symptomes-31-01-2020-8249439.php
 
Translation Google

Coronavirus: Second plane repatriating people from China lands in France

02 FEB 2020
Update 02.02.2020 at 21:53
TV5MONDE
with AFP

A second plane from Wuhan landed in Istres in the south of France. On board 250 people including 65 French. They will be placed in quarantine.

At least 65 more Frenchmen began a period of containment on Sunday in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne, after the landing in the afternoon in Istres of a plane which brought in all 250 people from Wuhan, epicenter of the new coronavirus infection epidemic.

Twenty passengers from the returnee plane arriving in France from China on Sunday stayed at the airport awaiting a test because they show symptoms of contamination with the new coronavirus, the Minister of Health announced on Sunday. Agnes Buzyn.

" About twenty people who presented with symptoms remained on the tarmac " in Istres (Bouches-du-Rh?ne) "under the supervision of military doctors until they had a test," she said during a press conference in Paris.

They are both " French and non-European " nationals.

" Depending on the result of the test, they will either be hospitalized if the test is positive, or will be able to reach the center of Carry-le-Rouet or the center of Aix-en-Provence ", the two places of quarantine chosen by the authorities to welcome returnees.
...

https://information.tv5monde.com/in...-personnes-de-chine-atterrit-en-france-344800
 
febr 3, 2020

Tests for the coronavirus on about 20 people who arrived on France on an evacuation flight from China have come back negative, authorities said Monday.
 
Translation Google

INFO EUROPE 1 - Coronavirus: questions posed by the course of the contaminated doctor near Paris

07:08, February 03, 2020, modified at 10:15 a.m., February 03, 2020

A doctor in the Paris region contracted the coronavirus after having examined a Chinese patient. According to information from Europe 1, several days passed between the consultation of this woman and the moment when he reported himself to the authorities.

INFO EUROPE 1
In France, six cases of coronavirus have been reported for the moment and are still hospitalized in Paris and Bordeaux. The general direction of health specified last Thursday that the sixth patient is a liberal doctor of the Paris region, contaminated by a Chinese tourist, without more details. The information collected by Europe 1 makes it possible to trace its course, which raises questions.

In contact with a coronavirus case on January 23, he reported on January 28

This liberal doctor practices at SOS 92, mainly in consultations at the homes of patients residing in the Hauts-de-Seine sector. On January 23, at the Samu's request, he was sent to visit a hotel in Ch?tenay-Malabry. Reason for the consultation: two Chinese tourists, from Taiwan, cough and are in a febrile condition. These two patients, not coming from Wuhan and having no fever, cannot therefore be considered as suspect cases by the Samu.

Once there, the doctor performs a standard consultation and examines the two women. A third person, the translator of these tourists, is also in the room. The doctor goes back to his consultations, and the story could have ended. But on January 28, five days later, the Chinese authorities warn France that the translator, returning to her country, is indeed a confirmed case of coronavirus.

The doctor of SOS 92, who at that time had a fever of 38 degrees, was warned. He then placed himself in solitary confinement until his transfer to the hospital.

Thirty patients contacted by the French public health agency
Since the confirmation of this case (formalized on January 30), the French public health agency has carried out, as always, a careful investigation to identify all the people who have been in contact with the doctor. The agency notably called the thirty patients examined between January 23 and 28.

So was there a failure in the alert chain put in place by the authorities to identify suspect cases as soon as possible? A priori no, but maybe we will have to review the criteria that trigger the alert. For example, expanding the area of ​​provenance in China (not just Wuhan, the focus of the epidemic), or even that the patient should not systematically have a fever.

But authorities, like scientists, are learning a little more about this virus every day, including the possible contagiousness during the incubation period (between the time of infection and the onset of the first symptoms). To date, scientists believe that contagion could be possible only in the 24 hours preceding the first signs of the disease. According to an infectious disease specialist contacted by Europe 1, the risk for patients that the infected doctor saw during his incubation is therefore very low, but not zero.
...
https://www.europe1.fr/sante/info-eu...-paris-3947122
 
..The vaccination of 4000 people working at a dry dock in the southern city of Marseille got underway this Monday after the discovery of a streptococcus pneumoniae infection that can lead to potentially deadly pneumonia and meningitis.
According to the regional health agency or ARS, some 15 vaccination teams have been deployed in Marseille's maritime port to "protect workers that may have been contaminated on the site.

The health authorities were reportedly alerted last Thursday that several cases of infection...
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacteria that can lead to pulmonary and sinus infections that can lead to more severe aiments in upto 30% of patients.
The recent death of a Filippino man being treated for the Novel Coronavirus was also reportedly infected by streptococcus pneumoniae and influenza, which led to his rapid deterioration despite initially responding well to treatment. ..:tiphat:http://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200203-4000-french-naval-workers-vaccinated-amid-pneumonia-fears
 
Translation Google

Coronavirus: negative tests for the last returnees, containment continues

03 FEB 2020
Updated 03.02.2020 at 18:00 AFP

In a holiday home or a training center for firefighters, all the returnees who arrived on Sunday from Wuhan, epicenter of the epidemic of the new coronavirus, began their confinement period on Monday, after "negative" tests for about twenty of them. those who had questionable symptoms.

Monday, the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rh?ne counted 224 people, the vast majority of whom were French, in confinement in the Vacanciel holiday center in the seaside resort of Carry-le-Rouet, near Marseille, and 76 people, including 19 French , at the National School of Officers of the Fire Department in Aix-en-Provence.

After an initial evacuation on Friday, an Airbus A380 landed on Sunday afternoon at the military base of Istres (Bouches-du-Rh?ne) with 254 people on board, including 64 French and passengers in their thirties. other nationalities.

124 foreigners returned to their country by plane. On the other hand, "around sixty non-Europeans of various origins, Mexico, Rwanda, Brazil, Georgia" remained on French soil, according to the Minister of Health Agn?s Buzyn.

- "Excellent conditions" -

Of the passengers on this second flight, 36 had experienced symptoms upon arrival at Istres. Sixteen of them immediately returned to their countries but "about twenty" French and non-European nationals had to stay on the tarmac in Istres, in order to be tested - it is they whose tests were all negative , Secretary of State Adrien Taquet announced on Monday morning.

In Carry-le-Rouet, all the returnees were gathered in the afternoon for the health authorities to announce the news, greeted with applause, according to S?bastien Ricci, one of the three AFP journalists deployed to Wuhan and repatriated Friday.

"It's going very well, people have made their mark. The new people who arrived yesterday (Sunday) integrated immediately. The center is now set up in terms of organization. We have a good return of satisfaction from people who did not expect to have such good hotel conditions, "Marc Zyltman, head of the Red Cross at the Carry-le-Rouet site, told AFP.

"We almost forget that we are confined, we sometimes forget to put a mask on the face when we leave our room, but we are quickly called to order", abounds S?bastien Ricci: "The staff medical is very present and the conditions excellent. People realize that they are very fortunate to be there. "

In Aix-en-Provence, the framework of the School of firefighting officers, located in an activity area about ten kilometers from the city center, is more austere, explained to AFP the deputy of Bouches -du-Rh?ne, Anne Laurence Petel (LREM), who visited the place on Sunday: "The places are brand new, but spartan, because they are normally occupied by officers in training".

"The fenced places are large and include a pine forest, but it is quite empty," said Ms. Petel, who launched a collection on social networks of books and board games.
...
The Aix-en-Provence town hall will organize an information meeting on Tuesday morning for residents near the containment center.

Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said on France 2 that all returnees would be "obviously followed like all those who are now in quarantine with regular temperature readings".

After the two flights, all the French who requested it were repatriated, she added.

While several countries have started operations to repatriate their nationals from Wuhan, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian praised Sunday "remarkable" cooperation with the Chinese authorities, adding that the repatriation of French diplomatic personnel was not on today's agenda.

In France, no new case has been diagnosed: there are still six affected patients, only one of whom, an 80-year-old Chinese man, remained in intensive care in Paris on Monday. The other five are hospitalized in Paris and Bordeaux.
...
https://information.tv5monde.com/in...s-rapatries-le-confinement-se-poursuit-344835
 
Translation Google


Coronavirus: on BFMTV, the contaminated doctor hospitalized in Paris reassures about his state of health

2/3/2020 at 5:37 p.m.

The liberal doctor contaminated by the coronavirus, and hospitalized in Paris since last Thursday, decided to speak in order to reassure about his state of health.

The liberal doctor suffering from Chinese coronavirus after coming into contact with Chinese patients themselves infected, decided to testify about his state of health on Monday on our antenna. This man, sixth confirmed case of contamination in France , hospitalized in Paris since last Thursday, wants to be reassuring.

"I'm fine, there I have no symptoms," said the doctor on BFMTV. "I had a little fever, I went up to 38 ? C, with a sore throat and a headache. And then the fever passed the next day, the sore throat three days later, and then the headache five days later. I haven't had anything for three days. "

A home consultation, "without mask"
"Frankly if I had not known by the ARS (Regional Health Agency) that I had rubbed shoulders with a sick patient, I would not have known", is still surprised the health professional, still hospitalized in the room confined. He adds: "My viremia (viral load) is decreasing day by day, so I will be told soon that I will go out."

The 50-year-old doctor says that he "came into contact with two tourists whom he was asked to visit, who had a little cough and no fever, with their interpreter". He was infected on Thursday, January 23, after a home medical consultation with two patients who had returned from Asia.

"I stayed in touch with them for about 20 minutes in the confined space of their room on January 23. I was warned of their positivity on January 28 and immediately hospitalized for tests. there was no problem. The patients were tested themselves, and until further notice there is no new case. At that time the epidemic was still in its infancy, I hadn't put on a mask, "he regrets.

C?cile Danr? with Jeanne Bulant

https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justic...is-rassure-sur-son-etat-de-sante-1851638.html
 
Translation Google

Coronavirus: people confined near Aix-en-Provence will be tested again

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 3:05 p.m. - By Adrien Bossard , France Bleu Provence

The discovery of a positive coronavirus test on a Belgian, who was part of the second plane of repatriates from Wuhan, obliges to repeat the examinations on all those who were present in the device. The people currently confined near Aix-en-Provence will again be checked.


The Belgian Ministry of Health announced Tuesday (February 4th) that a first case of coronavirus was detected on one of the nine Belgian nationals repatriated on Sunday from Wuhan, China. This patient who "has no signs of illness yet" was present on the plane which landed in Istres, in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne, with 250 people on board, including 65 French.

Currently, 76 passengers of this aircraft are confined to Les Milles , near Aix-en-Provence, at the higher national school of fire brigade officers. All underwent tests, which turned out to be negative, but "new exams will be carried out after the discovery of this case of coronavirus on a Belgian" , assures Philippe Brouqui, head of pole at the IHU Mediterranean Infection, which manages the monitoring of quarantined people.

"There is an incubation period in any disease."

The professor assures that the " Belgian patient had not been tested in France " . There was a transfer from edge to edge, the man went directly on the plane leaving for Belgium, after having disembarked from the one that landed in Istres, Sunday. "It is important to re-test people confined to the Miles, because there is, in any disease, an incubation period and when you test 4 or 5 days after, there can sometimes be different results" , adds Philippe Brouqui.

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/sant...ees-1580824995
 
Translation Google

Coronavirus. The six cases in France hospitalized "as long as there is still detectable virus"

The six patients hospitalized in France after being contaminated by the new coronavirus are all "in a stable state" but will not leave as long as the virus remains present in their organism, declared, this

Wednesday February 5, 2020, the Minister of Health Agnes Buzyn.

Ouest-France
with AFP
Published on
02/05/2020 at 11h36

The first confirmed cases in France of the conoravirus , which appeared in China in December, were announced on January 24: a Bordeaux native of China and a couple of thirty-something Chinese arrived in France on January 18.

They were followed by others on January 28, 29 and 30 : an 80-year-old Chinese tourist, still in intensive care at Bichat hospital in Paris, his 50-year-old daughter and a liberal doctor contaminated by Chinese nationals, one of whom then went to Taiwan, where she reported the disease. No other cases have been identified since, the minister confirmed on Wednesday.

"One of the patients still in intensive care"
One of the patients is still in intensive care […] in a stable state, all the others are in regular medical services and they are kept in isolation as long as there is detectable virus, but they are doing well for the moment , she said on RMC / BFMTV .
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Masks for China
Agn?s Buzyn also announced the establishment of coordination between European countries to help China, both in terms of equipment and in terms of skills in epidemiologists and virologists .

France has already provided masks in particular, which we brought with us on the first flight which sought returnees in Wuhan at the end of last week, she added.

Chinese authorities on Monday (February 3rd) said there was an urgent need for masks, protective suits and medical equipment to deal with the epidemic.

No vaccine right away
The Minister of Health, a doctor by training, also recalled that the development of a vaccine takes time , while several teams around the world are working to find one.

It's always several months, around a year, two years. In any case, it will not be next week . There is no way we will find a vaccine in one, two or three weeks , she said.

https://www.ouest-france.fr/sante/v...nt-qu-il-y-encore-du-virus-detectable-6722757
 
FEBRUARY 8, 2020 / 4:49 AM / UPDATED 17 MINUTES AGO [h=1]Five Britons infected with coronavirus in France: French minister[/h]
PARIS (Reuters) - Five British nationals have been diagnosed with the coronavirus in France, after a coming into contact with a person who had been in Singapore, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Saturday.

The new cases included a child, Buzyn added. She said they were not in a serious condition. The total number of people infected with the virus in France has now reached 11.

Buzyn said the group of newly-infected people with the virus formed “a cluster, a grouping around one original case.”...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...virus-in-france-french-minister-idUSKBN2020CT
 
[h=1]Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus[/h] 17 minutes ago
Five Britons have tested positive for coronavirus in France, local health officials have confirmed.

Four adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus in the French Alps, including a British national who recently returned from Singapore.

The French health minister said all the new cases had been staying in the same ski chalet in the Haute-Savoie region.

They were admitted to three hospitals in Lyon, Saint-Etienne and Grenoble on Friday night.

A total of 11 people were staying at the chalet in Contamines-Montjoie in Haute-Savoie, according to Health Minister Agn?s Buzyn.

Speaking on Saturday, the minister added that the five confirmed cases were not in a serious condition.

It comes as four members of the same British family were admitted to hospital in Majorca after contact with a coronavirus carrier.

They are being tested at the University Hospital of Son Espases in Palma.

The British family said they had been in contact with a person who recently tested positive for the virus in France, the government in Spain's Balearic Islands said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51425702
 
First British child tests positive for coronavirus as five new cases confirmed
  • UPDATED10:39, 8 FEB 2020
The five British nationals were infected by a family member who caught coronavirus at a business conference in Singapore and passed it on to them during a holiday in the French Alps

Five British family members have been diagnosed with SARS-like coronavirus in France, including the first UK child to catch the potentially deadly bug.

The five were infected by a middle-aged British family member who caught the virus at a business conference in Singapore and met them in Contamines-Montjoie, in the French Alps, on January 24 for four days before travelling back to the UK.

They all stayed in the same ski chalet.

The announcement came after a British family-of-four was hospitalised in Majorca as possible cases after coming into contact with a person who recently tested positive in France. It was unclear whether there was a link between the Brits in the French Alps and those on the Spanish island.

Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said a UK citizen "recently arrived on a flight from Singapore" and had been in contact with 11 people at the chalet in the Haute-Savoie Alpine region of south-eastern France.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...tests-21455157
 
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