The tests carried out on twenty returnees arrived Sunday from Wuhan, epicenter of the epidemic of the new coronavirus, and presenting "symptoms", were found to be "negative", announced Monday on BFMTV Adrien Taquet, secretary of state to the Minister of Health.
"All these negative tests"
"All of these tests turned out to be negative and therefore all these people were able to reach the centers, whether in Aix or Carry" where they will be quarantined for 14 days, he said.
Coronavirus: Adrien Taquet announces that the tests on the twenty returnees who presented symptoms this Sunday are "negative" pic.twitter.com/CWOkHVGCdy
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) February 3, 2020The plane landed at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Istres military base. This flight, the second of its kind carried out by France in the context of the repatriation of foreigners in the midst of a coronavirus epidemic, had 250 people on board, mainly from the European Union.
Among them, about twenty passengers remained on the airport tarmac while waiting for a test, as they presented symptoms of contamination with the new coronavirus, announced the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn.
The coronavirus, now more deadly than SARS
The repatriation of foreigners from China continues as the death toll reported on Sunday was 361 dead, including 57 additional deaths on Sunday alone. There are now in mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao) more deaths from this coronavirus than from the SARS epidemic (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which killed 349 people in 2002-2003.
The daily toll of 57 dead is also the heaviest since the epidemic began in December.
The virus also killed one person for the first time outside China: a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who died in the Philippines, WHO announced on Sunday morning.
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