His state of health shows "no signs of seriousness". A 58-year-old woman, a general practitioner by profession, tested positive for coronavirus and was hospitalized on Thursday at the Nantes University Hospital, the regional health agency and the Nantes University Hospital announced. This is the first confirmed case in the Pays-de-la-Loire region.
This fifties is domiciled in Oise, a department where more than a dozen cases have already been identified. On February 13, she received a patient who had since been hospitalized in Amiens. She was contacted earlier this week by the health authorities and asked to be tested immediately as a "contact person" while she was in La Baule where she was visiting her mother.
"No focus of transmission in Pays-de-la-Loire"
"It was very symptomatic but was part of the chain of transmission", justifies the ARS of Pays-de-la-Loire, which specifies that this doctor traveled alone, by car, between the Oise and the Loire -Atlantic.
Three people who were in direct contact with this patient were listed on Thursday. Two were hospitalized in Nantes "as a precaution". "As we speak there is no focus of transmission, nor other suspected cases, in Pays-de-la-Loire," insists the ARS.
In the Oise, a 61-year-old teacher died of the coronavirus and civilian personnel from the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the same department are hospitalized in critical condition.
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