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Five new grouped cases of coronavirus confirmed in France

published on 08.02.20
Press releases by Agn?s Buzyn Press releases and press kits

The Ministry of Solidarity and Health informs that five new cases of coronavirus, 4 adults and 1 child, in the immediate vicinity of an initial case reported yesterday in France, are confirmed. This initial case is a British national, who returned from Singapore on January 24 and who stayed 4 days in the town of Contamines-Montjoie (Haute-Savoie) and returned to England on January 28. France now has 11 confirmed cases of coronavirus.

The 5 people whose diagnosis was confirmed as well as close contacts, ie 11 people in total, all of British nationality, were hospitalized that night (University hospital centers of Lyon, Saint-Etienne and Grenoble). Their clinical condition shows no sign of seriousness.

A crisis unit was immediately set up by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Auvergne Rh?ne-Alpes. People who have been in close and prolonged contact with these new cases will be informed during the day and will receive specific instructions. This identification of contacts is carried out in conjunction with British and international authorities.

The Minister of Solidarity and Health wishes to salute the mobilization of the health response chain and thanks in particular to the SAMU teams, the infectious diseases and pediatrics departments.

A press conference organized by the Prefect of Haute-Savoie and the Director General of ARS Auvergne Rh?ne-Alpes will be held at 2 p.m. in the prefecture of Annecy.
A specific telephone number has been opened locally to answer questions from those directly concerned: 0 800 100 379.

Friday, February 7, the Minister of Solidarity and Health announced the strengthening of recommendations and the updating of health instructions for people returning from China, due to the intensification of the circulation of the virus in China. These measures have been operational since this Saturday morning.
Advice for travelers after a stay in China
Anyone returning from China must now within 14 days of their return

Monitor their temperature twice a day

Wear a surgical mask in the presence of those around them and outside the home

Reduce unnecessary activities and frequenting places where fragile people are found

Wash your hands regularly
In case of fever or feeling of fever, cough, difficulty breathing

Contact the emergency ambulance center 15 quickly by reporting your trip

Do not go directly to the doctor or hospital emergencies
Find out more
Toll-free platform "New Coronavirus": 0800 130 000, open from 9 am to 7 pm, 7 days a week
On the site of the Ministry of Solidarity and Health
On the site of the Government
On the site of Public Health France
On the WHO website
Twitter @Alertesanitaire
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Coronavirus 2019-nCoV: what we know about the five new cases identified in France

They are four adults and one child. All are of British nationality. They resided in an "isolated chalet" in Contamines-Montjoie (Haute-Savoie), at the end of January.

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Updated 02/08/2020 | 4:14 p.m.
published on 02/08/2020 | 12:15

French health authorities on alert. The Minister of Health, Agn?s Buzyn, announced five new cases of people affected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus in France, Saturday, February 8. They are four adults and one child, she said. "Their clinical condition shows no sign of seriousness," said Agn?s Buzyn. These five new cases are in addition to the six reported so far on French territory. These six are still hospitalized, but most are better.

Who are the infected people?

Their identity has not been revealed, but Agn?s Buzyn indicated that it was a group of people who stayed in a chalet in Haute-Savoie. At the origin of this contamination, a British national returning from Singapore "where he had stayed from January 20 to 23" . "He arrived on January 24 in France for four days, he stayed in the town of Contamines-Montjoie " , in Haute-Savoie, she said. The five people concerned are of British nationality, said the minister.

The chalet was "isolated" , said, for his part, J?r?me Salomon, the director general of Health. In detail, "two apartments were investigated in this chalet," he said. In the first, the health authorities established the presence of English tourists, only adults, "with minor symptoms" . Three people were affected by the coronavirus. In the second apartment of this chalet, the authorities established the presence of a father and three children. The father and one of his children, who have "minor symptoms" , have been identified as positive.

The child, who tested positive, is 9 years old, said Jean-Yves Grall, director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Auvergne-Rh?ne-Alpes, during a press conference on Saturday in early afternoon. He attended "two schools, in particular that of Les Contamines, where he is resident," he said. This child also went "to a school in Saint-Gervais, where he stayed for a day for French lessons" .

How were they taken care of?
In total, eleven people (all of British nationality) were hospitalized overnight from Friday to Saturday, in three hospitals: four at the CHU in Lyon, two at that of Saint-Etienne and five at that of Grenoble.

Among these eleven people are the five confirmed positive cases and those who have had close and prolonged contact with the British national who returned from Singapore. All these people "resided in the same chalet " in Contamines-Montjoie, the minister insisted. "Their clinical condition shows no sign of seriousness," said Agn?s Buzyn.

The six people whose infection has not yet been confirmed are confined and under surveillance, said Jean-Yves Grall.

What measures have been implemented in the region?
At the local level, Jean-Yves Grall announced that investigations had been launched to find individuals who may have been in contact with people diagnosed positive. As part of this research, measures will be taken: the two schools attended by the 9-year-old child tested positive must be "closed next week to allow further investigations," said Jean-Yves Grall. The parents of the pupils of these schools will be informed with "a letter from the National Education, which will leave very quickly, giving the conduct to be followed within this framework" .

A crisis unit has been activated by the Auvergne-Rh?ne-Alpes region and a special number (0 800 100 379) has been opened to answer questions from people "directly affected by these new cases of contamination" .

"The high-risk contacts are those who have remained within a meter, for an extended period, of infected people , insisted J?r?me Salomon. " They are really the people who share the same room, the same meal, the same location, or close friends " of people diagnosed with coronavirus 2019-nCoV.

A crisis center at the town hall of Les Contamines is deployed " with the possibility of having answers to the questions people are asking" , added Jean-Yves Grall, stressing that "points will be made for the population as soon as evening [Saturday] at 6 pm " , at Les Contamines.

Where is the investigation into the origin of this contamination?
"We have an international investigation under way," said J?r?me Salomon, director general of health. "We have close relations with the Singapore authorities which are currently investigating a professional meeting which would have been held in Singapore from 20 to 22 January, during which 94 foreigners were gathered in a hotel," he said.

People from Hubei Province, the Chinese focus of the new coronavirus epidemic, participated in this professional event. J?r?me Salomon added that Malaysia and South Korea also reported confirmed cases, on February 4 and 5, of people who took part in this meeting in Singapore.

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/m...ouveaux-cas-identifies-en-france_3817745.html

 

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Mince, il y a une photo de la Ministre avec un masque:
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/m...des-contamines-sous-surveillance_3818985.html

Dans un pays ou le politique abuse de la science des risques et nie l'importance de celle des dangers, une petite crise, comme cela, doit en ?nerver plus d'un.

 

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Coronavirus: vast screening operation for Contamines

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AFP / Marie GIFFARD

One hundred tests for the new coronavirus were carried out on people who were in contact with eleven Britons hospitalized after a stay in Haute-Savoie, where the Minister of Health made an effort on Sunday to send reassuring messages.

The results of these screenings will be known "in the evening", according to Agn?s Buzyn, whose ministry announced a new update on Sunday at 7.45pm at the health crisis center in Paris.

From the Grenoble hospital, the minister gave reassuring news of the father and his three children, of British nationality hospitalized in the CHU of this city after having rubbed in the same chalet of Contamines-Montjoie at the end of January a contaminated compatriot returning from Singapore.

"Everyone was very smiling, very relaxed. The English Minister of Health had heard from them, the British ambassador was hearing from them regularly (...) We were able to reassure (the father of the family) about the state of health of his wife who is currently hospitalized in Britain, "said Ms. Buzyn.

Seven other Britons who shared the same chalet were hospitalized in Grenoble, Lyon and Saint-Etienne. Of the eleven members of the group, five were confirmed positive for coronavirus Saturday by the ministry, the other six being admitted as a precaution.

This brings the total of confirmed cases in France to eleven. "All are stable except the Chinese tourist who is still in intensive care," said Buzyn.

Earlier in the day, the minister had visited the Haut-Savoyard village of 1,200 inhabitants where "more than 100" people were to be tested by Sunday evening in an entertainment center, right next to the school. Alexis-Bouvard primary school, where the contaminated child is educated. The establishment is closed until further notice since Saturday.

"We have + prioritized + the children who have been in most contact with the affected child, then the children who have symptoms and finally people who are less at risk because their contact has been less close," said the minister on the spot. .

- "Evolutionary" situation -

"The situation is evolving, our decision will depend on whether we have positive results in the evening," said Ms. Buzyn, who also went to Saint-Gervais, where the young Briton affected briefly attended another school.

In Les Contamines, the minister considered that it was "important to reassure the inhabitants of this village who were not in contact and who therefore were not called".

"You have to tell them that there is no risk when you come across people on the street, that's not what it is to be in contact with a contaminated person. You need close, sustained contact in front of the person or carnal contact, you have to touch yourself so the risk is very low for the whole population, "she said.

"Today, I remind you that there is no epidemic, that the cases are identified, channeled, so we must not give in to an unreasoned panic," said the mayor of the village, Etienne Jacquet. .

To assess the consequences on tourism in the resort, the city councilor said he had "conducted a survey" with professionals and "in terms of cancellation, it is infinitesimal" both at the ski school and in hotels.

Chinese authorities announced on Sunday that the 2019-nCoV virus, which appeared in December in the Wuhan region (center), has killed more than 800 people, now exceeding the global death toll from SARS.

Thirty new French returnees from China arrived mid-day by plane at the military base of Istres (Bouches-du-Rh?ne). They will remain in quarantine for 14 days.

https://www.afp.com/fr/infos/334/coronavirus-vaste-operation-de-depistage-aux-contamines-doc-1ou29n1


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WORLD NEWSFEBRUARY 9, 2020 / 2:24 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Briton in French Alps may have spread coronavirus to others across Europe

Kylie MacLellan, Jessica Jones
4 MIN READ
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The man, Britain’s third case of the virus, stayed with a group of holidaymakers for four days in the chalet in Les Contamines-Montjoie late last month.

Five other Britons in the Alpine ski resort have since tested positive for the coronavirus, French officials said this weekend, linking the cases to the chalet group.

The trail does not appear to end there, however. ...

Spanish authorities said on Sunday that a British man had tested positive in Mallorca after coming into contact with an infected person in France, whom they said appeared to have been part of the chalet group.

British health officials, meanwhile, said on Sunday that the country had recorded its fourth case of coronavirus, and the person had caught the illness from a Briton while in France.
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French officials said they were tracing all the people who might have been in close contact with the group of 11 Britons exposed to the virus after sharing lodgings in the village.

Five of those tested positive, including a nine-year-old child and their father. Two other children - the infected child’s siblings - were hospitalized in France for checks, officials added.

Their mother had left the country by the time the investigation began and was under observation in a UK hospital, French officials said. It was not clear if she was the latest case to be diagnosed in Britain.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...navirus-to-others-across-europe-idUSKBN20307R

 

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[h=1]Coronavirus: now eleven confirmed cases in France[/h]
The five new cases detected in Haute-Savoie were infected by a man who was returning from Singapore.
By Cyrille Vanlerberghe
Posted 1 hour ago, updated 5 minutes ago[h=2]Tests for a hundred people[/h]
....After the discovery of the virus in the village of Haute-Savoie, more than a hundred people, likely to have been in contact with the five new patients, are being tested. On Sunday, 46 samples, mostly from children, turned out to be negative, said J?r?me Salomon, director general of health...:tiphat:https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/coronavirus-desormais-onze-cas-confirmes-en-france-20200209

 

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Coronavirus: a Montessori school closed as a precaution in Thonon-les-Bains in Haute-Savoie

Sunday February 9, 2020 at 9:13 pm - By Nelly Ass?nat , Richard Vivion , France Bleu Pays de Savoie

Three Haute-Savoie schools are now closed for the coming week, due to the discovery of a case of coronavirus on a 9-year-old child living in Contamines-Montjoie. The boy spent only a few hours in this Montessori school in Thonon-les-Bains.

There is therefore now a third school closed in Haute-Savoie, due to the discovery of a case of coronavirus in the department. After an establishment in Contamines-Montjoie and one in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, it is the Montessori school of Thonon-les-Bains which is the subject of this precautionary measure.

The school director, joined by France Bleu Pays de Savoie, confirms that she was informed by the authorities this Sunday morning.

His establishment, which has about twenty students, was attended for a few hours on January 31 by the little 9-year-old British boy, who lives year-round in Les Contamines-Montjoie, and who was contaminated by the coronavirus like four adults in his family. He is currently hospitalized in Grenoble. The boy had come to give a try to this Montessori establishment in Thon-les-Bains.

The school will be closed for one week as a precaution. The families have been notified. They must now monitor the development of their children's health and avoid going out for several days as much as possible.

First negative tests this Sunday evening

This Sunday evening 46 people, having been in contact with eleven Britons hospitalized after a stay in Haute-Savoie, have already been tested with the new coronavirus. On these 46 tests, the results of the first 21 samples were found to be "negative" , announced on Sunday evening the Director General of Health J?r?me Salomon. 25 others were still being analyzed on Sunday evening.

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/fai...a-thonon-les-bains-en-haute-savoie-1581279215

 

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Coronavirus: a Briton linked to a dozen cases in Haute-Savoie says he has "recovered"

02/11/2020 at 4.34pm
Marie GIFFARD / AFP

Steve Walsh, nicknamed "Super-spreader" by the British popular press, was infected with coronavirus at a conference in Singapore.

A British businessman who contracted the coronavirus and is linked to a dozen other cases, notably in the French Alps , said on Tuesday that he was "fully recovered".

Steve Walsh, originally from Hove in the south of England, was infected with coronavirus at a conference in Singapore. On his way back to the United Kingdom, he stopped for several days in a chalet in a ski resort in the French Alps, in Contamines-Montjoie (Haute-Savoie), where several Britons including a nine-year-old child been contaminated.

Five are hospitalized in France and one man on the Spanish island of Majorca.

Two infected doctors in the UK

Steve Walsh then returned to the UK where he is linked to at least five other cases of coronavirus, including two doctors. One of these doctors worked in a medical center in Brighton which has closed.

"I want to thank the National Health Service (NHS) for their help and care. I am fully recovered and my thoughts are with those who contracted the coronavirus," said Steve Walsh in a press release written from the London hospital where he is still in quarantine.

He explained that he contacted the health services as soon as he realized that he had been exposed to a confirmed case of coronavirus. "I was advised to go to an isolated room in the hospital, despite the absence of symptoms, and then to stay isolated at home."

"When the diagnosis was confirmed, I was sent to an isolation unit at the hospital, where I am still, and, as a precaution, my family was also asked to stay in solitary confinement", a- he explained.

A 50-year-old sales manager

Nicknamed "Super-spreader" by the British popular press, this man is a sales manager in his fifties, father of two, according to the tabloid The Daily mail .

The epidemic has claimed more than a thousand lives in mainland China since the announcement of the first death on January 11, attributed to the 2019-nCoV virus. In the United Kingdom, eight cases have been identified.

61 negative tests in Contamines-Montjoie

The five people carrying the virus in Contamines-Montjoie "are hospitalized and in a completely reassuring clinical situation, there is no concern today about their state of health", assured Professor J?r?me Salomon, director General of Health, during a press briefing on Monday.

"There are no other secondary cases in France. There have been very many people who have been tested," said the senior official.

In Haute-Savoie, so far "61 people have been tested, and 61 people have had a negative test", he added, stressing that at this date, "there is no chain of transmission ", which is" reassuring for the population concerned "in this department.

C.Bo. with AFP

https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/coron...s-en-haute-savoie-se-dit-retabli-1856162.html

 

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INFO FRANCE BLEU - Coronavirus: suspected cases at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital

Tuesday February 11, 2020 at 6:17 pm - By Olivier Vidal , Dominique Manent , France Bleu Pays d'Auvergne , France Bleu

Since Tuesday, two people have been hospitalized in the infectious diseases department of the Gabriel Montpied hospital in Clermont-Ferrand. They are a couple who present symptoms - cough and fever - which can make one think of the coronavirus.

Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-D?me, Auvergne-Rh?ne-Alpes, France

According to our information, these two people were taken care of on Tuesday in the infectious diseases department of the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital. It is a couple, Clermontois who returned last weekend from New Zealand and who passed through the Chinese airport of Canton where they stayed eight hours.

Samples were taken during the day and were sent to the national reference center of the Institut Pasteur in Lyon. It is not a blood test but a nasopharyngeal swab, a kind of cotton swab that is introduced into the nasal cavity to look for the virus. This technique is already used for the flu virus.

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/fai...-de-cas-au-chu-de-clermont-ferrand-1581435609

 

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Coronavirus: two of the eleven hospitalized patients in France are cured

It is the first cure for patients on French soil. No new cases have been detected so far, according to the health ministry.

Le Monde avec AFP Posted today at 8:02 pm, updated at 8:26 pm

Two of the eleven people hospitalized in France after being contaminated by the new coronavirus are "cured" and have left the hospital, the ministry of health announced on Wednesday 12 February.

It is the couple of thirty-something Chinese who was hospitalized at the Bichat hospital in Paris, said the number two of the ministry, J?r?me Salomon, adding that no new case had yet been detected in France. During their screening at the end of January, the head of the infectious diseases department at Bichat said that this couple, "originally from Wuhan" , arrived on January 18 in France for a trip. Professor Salomon clarified that a cured patient does not require any special follow-up.

Nine hospitalized patients

The exit criteria respond to an “extremely safe protocol” which is the subject of an “international consensus” : the symptoms (fever, cough, etc.) must have disappeared, and “two negative tests are required” within an interval of twenty -four hours to ensure that these patients are no longer contagious. Other exits among the first cases will occur "in the coming days," he said.

After these two discharges, nine patients remain hospitalized in France. A 48-year-old Frenchman of Chinese descent, working “in the wine business” and a regular back and forth with China, is hospitalized in Bordeaux; an elderly Chinese tourist, in a clinical condition still "severe" , is hospitalized in Paris, as well as his daughter, also infected.

The sixth case detected is that of a liberal doctor contaminated in France by a person then returned to Asia; he is taken care of in Paris. Hospitalized in Lyon, Saint-Etienne and Grenoble, the last five infected and detected people - four adults and a 9-year-old child - tested positive after having encountered, at the end of January , a fellow countryman in Contamines-Montjoie British carrier of the virus which returned from Singapore.

https://www.lemonde.fr/sante/articl...es-en-france-sont-gueris_6029362_1651302.html

 

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Coronavirus: infected Bordeaux patient is cured, Agn?s Buzyn awaits "new cases"

By Jean-Guillaume Bayard

The first French patient affected by the coronavirus is cured and left the hospital Thursday, February 13 after 22 days of quarantine. The 181 returnees from China who have been in solitary confinement for two weeks have also been released. The Minister of Health, Agn?s Buzyn, expects "new cases" in the territory.

Posted 02-14-2020 at 6:00 p.m. | |

The 48-year-old man, infected with the coronavirus, left the Bordeaux University Hospital this Thursday after having returned there on January 23. He then suffered from bilateral pneumonia and was placed in an isolation room. He received treatment with Remdesivir, an antiviral which was used to bring down the fever and calm his persistent cough. The molecule, which acts on the lungs, is being evaluated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The last examinations did not show any trace of presence of the virus at the patient, precipitating its discharge from the hospital. " All risk of contagion is now ruled out, he was able to join his family, and he will follow a course of care with us, in particular via psychological support, because 22 days of hospitalization was an ordeal" said Professor Denis Malvy , head of the tropical and infectious diseases department at the Bordeaux University Hospital. He will continue to be followed for a few more weeks.

End of quarantine for the first returnees

End of quarantine for the 181 French returnees from China held isolated for 14 days at the Carry-le-Rouet holiday center, in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne. Certificates attesting to the non-contamination with the coronavirus have been distributed. The national administrator of the French Red Cross, Marc Zyltman, said the returnees were " calm, rather happy to leave the site" .

“New cases” expected

The Minister of Health is " very likely" to expect new cases of coronavirus in France. Agn?s Buzyn explained to France Inter this morning that “ given the severity of the Chinese epidemic, given the number of cases in Southeast Asia, it is very likely that we will have new cases” in our country. To deal with this potential arrival, the minister assured that “ we are ready” . To identify the virus, hospitals have adopted a test that Agnes Buzyn considers “ reliable” .

https://www.pourquoidocteur.fr/Arti...nfecte-gueris-Agnes-Buzyn-attend-nouveaux-cas

 

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[h=1]Chinese Tourist in France Dies of Coronavirus, First Fatality in Europe: Minister[/h]
PARIS — An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalized in France has died of the coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Saturday.
France has recorded 11 cases of the virus, out of a global total of 63,851. The vast majority of those suffering from the virus are in China. The epidemic has killed almost 1,400 people.

(Reporting by Michel Rose; Editing by Edmund Blair)

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/02/15/world/asia/15reuters-china-health-france.html

 

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Coronavirus: patient dies in France, first death outside Asia

Published on : 2/15/2020 - 13:41

An 80-year-old Chinese tourist, infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in France since the end of January, died on Friday evening February 14, announced the French Minister of Health, Agn?s Buzyn.

" This is the first death from the coronavirus outside of Asia, and therefore the first death in Europe, " said Health Minister Agn?s Buzyn to the press on Saturday morning. Only three deaths have so far been recorded outside mainland China : the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan. The condition of this patient, who arrived in France on January 23 and hospitalized a few days later in intensive care at Bichat hospital in Paris with a serious pulmonary infection, " had rapidly deteriorated and he had been in critical condition for several days . "

Eleven confirmed cases

Her 50-year-old daughter, also affected by the disease and hospitalized in the same establishment, does not, however, inspire any concern and " should be able to go out soon, " said the minister. France has so far identified 11 confirmed cases linked to the Covid epidemic19 . Four of them are " cured " and " are released " from the hospital: on Wednesday, a couple of thirty-something Chinese men also taken care of at Bichat hospital, on Thursday, a 48-year-old Bordeaux resident from China, and on Friday, a doctor who was hospitalized at Piti?-Salp?tri?re in Paris.

" Negative tests "

These people " have stopped being positive for the virus, they have had two negative tests " and are " back home ," said Agn?s Buzyn, explaining that there was no longer any need to subject them to surveillance. special. Six patients remain hospitalized, and their state of health " does not cause concern ". In addition to the daughter of the deceased patient, there are five Britons - four adults and a 9-year-old child, contaminated by a compatriot during a stay in Haute-Savoie. They are hospitalized in the Lyon region.

( with AFP )

http://www.rfi.fr/fr/france/20200215-coronavirus-patient-décè-france-premier-mort-hors-asie-buzyn

 

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Coronavirus: meeting Tuesday at the Ministry of Health to deal with "a possible pandemic spread"

Saturday February 15, 2020 at 4:50 pm - By M?lanie Juv? , France Bleu , France Bleu Paris

Following the first death of a person suffering from coronavirus in France on Friday evening, Minister Agn?s Buzyn announces the holding of a meeting on Tuesday with health professionals to try to deal with the risk of "pandemic spread".

After the first death of a patient diagnosed with coronavirus in France Friday evening, the Minister of Health Agn?s Buzyn will convene next Tuesday the representatives of hospital professionals and city health professionals to deal with " a possible pandemic spread of the virus and therefore a circulation of the virus on the national territory ".

"We are therefore monitoring the international situation very closely, as we have been doing for several weeks" added the minister, while the toll of the epidemic of the new coronavirus exceeded Saturday the 1,500 deaths in China .

The patient who died in France is an 80-year-old Chinese tourist from Hubei province . He arrived on January 16 in the territory, "already infected" indicates Bruno Lina, professor of virology at the University Hospital of Lyon and the International Center for Research in Infectious Disease, on Franceinfo this Saturday. He was then hospitalized on January 25 at Bichat Hospital in Paris. "We were indeed very worried, obviously he could not control the viral infection, we continued to find him high viral loads in his samples. He did what is called a multi-visceral failure." indicates the virologist.

The mortality rate of the Covid-19 coronavirus is 2%, which "remains a significant mortality rate" indicates Bruno Lina, even if he stresses that this rate could actually be lower, knowing that infected people can cure without be diagnosed or identified by health services.

"It is vital to identify patients"

A first case was detected Friday on the African continent, a foreign patient hospitalized in Egypt . "If you have outbreaks of infection that develop in less developed countries or the health resource is less good (...) we risk to see settling in a little silent at the beginning a circulation of this virus. And we can see that if this installation is done, (...) there is a dissemination that can spread. Everyone draws attention to the fact that it is vital to identify patients, to be able to control them , so that the chains of transmission are not put in place everywhere in the world. "

To avoid the spread of the virus, France is currently hospitalizing and confining each confirmed case, and screening people in contact with the patient.

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/soc...les-patients-explique-un-virologue-1581778743

 

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Source: https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/15/sixt...i-chalet-tests-positive-coronavirus-12247228/

Sixth Brit who visited French ski chalet tests positive for coronavirus James Hockaday
Saturday 15 Feb 2020 8:56 pm
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/15/sixt...ts-positive-coronavirus-12247228/?ito=cbshare

Another British national who stayed at a chalet in the Les Contamines-Montjoie resort has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Last week five UK citizens, including a nine-year-old child, were diagnosed with the airborne disease, having stayed at the same lodge in the French Alps...

In a statement the French Ministry of Health said the man’s condition is not thought to be serious...

 

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COVID-19 Coronavirus: a twelfth confirmed case in France

published on 15.02.20

The Ministry of Solidarity and Health informs of a 12th confirmed case of infection with the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The patient, of British nationality, is one of the people who had stayed in the Contamines-Montjoie chalet where, after the discovery of a first case, five people (secondary cases) were then diagnosed positive last week . The patient has remained in strict isolation in a referral hospital in Lyon since last Saturday, in accordance with the reinforced surveillance procedure for contact cases. His condition does not cause concern today.

Since his arrival at the hospital, he was regularly evaluated and tested. A sample has tested positive for coronavirus today. This underlines the relevance of the isolation measures recommended for high-risk contact persons implemented in France.

France now has twelve confirmed cases of COVID-19, including six in the context of grouped contamination, in a chalet in Contamines-Montjoie. As of February 15, four patients were cured and discharged from the hospital and one patient died.

A specific telephone number has been opened locally to answer questions from those directly concerned: 0 800 100 379.

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https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/ac...irme-en-france

 

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Covid-19: epidemiological situation in France


Find the national epidemiological situation, the characteristics of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), follow-up of contacts

Updated February 16, 2020

THEMATIC FILE FEBRUARY 4, 2020 Coronavirus infection


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On 02/16/20, at 12 noon, the national epidemiological situation reported 12 confirmed cases, including 6 cases grouped in the Alps. A death has been reported in France since 02/14/20 in a confirmed case diagnosed at the end of January 2020, an 81-year-old man who was hospitalized in Paris. Characteristics of the cases, Covid-19, France, 02/13/20, 6 p.m. (source: Public health France)


369 cases investigated including: 11 confirmed cases, 340 excluded cases, 18 cases under investigation; among the 11 confirmed cases: 7 men, 4 women, and median age: 48 years (cases aged 9 to 81)

Number per day of reporting of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Covid-19, of excluded cases and cases under investigation, France, February 13, 2020, 6 p.m.

Source: Public health France Distribution by region of investigated cases and confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Covid-19, France, February 12, 2019, 6 p.m., France Public Health data
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[TD]Auvergne-Rh?ne-Alpes[/TD]
[TD]81[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
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[TD]Bourgogne-Franche-Comt?[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Brittany[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Center[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Corsica[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Grand-Est[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Hauts-de-France[/TD]
[TD]17[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Ile-de-France[/TD]
[TD]153[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
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[TD]Normandy[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Nova Aquitaine[/TD]
[TD]15[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
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[TD]Occitan[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Paca[/TD]
[TD]12[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Pays de la Loire[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Metropolitan France[/TD]
[TD]325[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
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[TD]Guadeloupe[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Guyana[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Martinique[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Mayotte[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Meeting[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
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[TD]Total[/TD]
[TD]325[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
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Follow-up of contacts of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Covid-19, France


The follow-up period for a person in contact with a confirmed case is 14 days from the date of last contact. Specific measures (telephone call to assess possible symptoms, temperature measurement) are defined according to the procedure to be followed, taking into account the exposure levels (low, moderate / high). As of 02/13/20, at 6:00 p.m., 232 people have been followed, of whom 114 have completed the follow-up period and 118 are still under follow-up.

Daily number of contacts with follow-up completed and in progress (data being consolidated for cases grouped in the Alps), February 14, 2020, 12:30 p.m.

Source: Public Health France - NB: the figure represents the follow-up time remaining in days for positive contacts and the number of days since discharge in negative. The time "0" corresponds to today's date.

https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/m...ique-en-france

 

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https://english.alarabiya.net/en/Ne...s-ready-in-case-of-coronavirus-epidemic-.html

French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Sunday new cases of coronavirus were “very likely” in France and health authorities were ready in case of an epidemic, adding he was “particularly watchful” of the situation in Italy.

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INFO FRANCE BLEU - Coronavirus: a suspected case detected in the Indre, transferred to the Tours University Hospital

Monday February 24, 2020 at 09:13 PM - By Emeline Ferry , France Bleu Berry , France Bleu Touraine
M?zi?res-en-Brenne, France

An inhabitant of M?zi?res-en-Brenne, presenting symptoms of the coronavirus, was sent to the hospital center of Tours, waiting to know whether or not he is contaminated with Covid-19. He was returning from the carnival in Venice, a region affected by the epidemic.

A suspected case of coronavirus has been detected in Indre, learned France Bleu Berry. He is a man in his sixties, who lives in M?zi?res-en-Brenne. "It was a patient who called us because he was coming back from the Carnival of Venice, where he was with his wife. He came back on Friday and had symptoms, a high fever and a cough," said Doctor Ch?rif Mansour, responsible for emergencies at the Ch?teauroux hospital center. The patient was transferred directly from his home to the CHU de Tours. We are still waiting to know whether or not it is contaminated by Covid-19.

According to the emergency manager of the Ch?teauroux hospital, the patient had the right reflex by calling 15, and by not going to the emergency room, thus avoiding a possible spread of the virus. Doctor Ch?rif Mansour wants above all to reassure. The Ch?teauroux hospital is the benchmark establishment in Indre. The Minister of Health, Olivier V?ran, indeed announced Sunday that all the departments of metropolitan France would have a hospital ready to welcome patients affected by the coronavirus .
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https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/sant...urs-1582572263

 

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A suspected coronavirus case hospitalized in Ajaccio

By Isabelle Luccioni - February 24, 2020 at 10:33 pm
Corsica - Health

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A person who could have contracted the coronavirus was hospitalized yesterday at the end of the afternoon at the center hospitalier de la Mis?ricorde in Ajaccio, in an isolated unit confirmed the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Corsica in the evening.

The information had circulated in the form of rumors throughout the afternoon but the health authorities, in Corsica and in Paris, refused to confirm it by warning that they would only speak on the proven cases. Despite everything, the persistence of this rumor which was gaining momentum over the hours led the director of the ARS, Marie-H?l?ne Lucenne to clarify the facts.

Neither the identity nor the age of the person hospitalized was disclosed. No more than how she could have come into contact with Covid 19. "She was the subject of samples which were sent to the reference center, that is to say, to the Pasteur Institute, for be analyzed there ", explains the director of ARS. Which specifies that "pending the return of these analyzes, this patient will remain hospitalized in isolation at the Mercy Hospital Center".

https://www.corsematin.com/article/a...lise-a-ajaccio

 

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DIRECT. Coronavirus: two new cases in France, announces the Director General of Health

Modified on 02/25/2020 at 19:15 | Posted on 25/02/2020 at 06:23
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7:01 p.m.

Two new cases in France, according to the Director General of Health. "We have two new cases this evening, so we have 14 confirmed cases: two people hospitalized, eleven recovered and one deceased," said Professor Salomon during a situation update on the Covid-19. It is a young Chinese woman returned from China on February 7, hospitalized in Paris, judges "negative, but with traces of a recent recovery", and a French man returning from Lombardy, Italy, hospitalized in Auvergne-Rh?ne-Alpes. Their two states do not inspire concern.
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https://www.ouest-france.fr/sante/vi...apon-ce-mardi- 6751768

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Coronavirus: two new confirmed cases in France

2/25/2020 at 7.12pm Updated on 02/25/2020 at 7.12pm

J?r?me Salomon, head of the Directorate General for Health, announced two new cases of coronavirus on French soil. However, only one of them is still sick.
While the day before, the authorities had announced that there were no longer anyone infected with the coronavirus on French soil, Professor J?r?me Salomon, Director General of Health, announced this Tuesday evening during a press point that the situation had changed: two new cases were reported.
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"Case number 13" concerns a young Chinese girl who returned from a trip to China on February 7. She is hospitalized in Paris. "She protected herself, she has had only four contacts in the past two days", contacts which will be "maintained at home", noted the professor who described the patient as "poor in symptoms", simply citing ailments of throat and cough.

To tell the truth, if it is indeed a new case, the girl is no longer sick as explained by J?r?me Salomon: "She has a very reassuring picture which has also caused much discussion about virologists since it is negative but with traces of recent healing. We have tests which even show that the person is no longer a carrier but has been, thanks to extremely sensitive tests. She is doing very well. have already tested her partner who is negative. "
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"Case number 14" is that of a French man returning from a stay in Lombardy. He was hospitalized in Auvergne-Rh?ne-Alpes. J?r?me Salomon clarified that his condition did not cause concern. Diagnosed at the start of the evening, investigations into people who may have been in contact with him have only just begun.

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https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/coronav...once-deux-nouveaux-cas-en-france-1864047.html