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French doctors believe that the coronavirus was already circulating in the country at the end of December, after having subsequently diagnosed a patient admitted to a hospital in the Paris region on December 27 .

The head of intensive care at the Avicenne de Bobigny and Jean Verdier de Bondy hospitals , Yves Cohen , explained in statements issued on Monday by France Info that the case has been discovered with a retrospective study of the PCR tests that were carried out on 24 hospitalized patients. in December and January with pneumonia .

PCR samples were taken from a man who entered the Jean Verdier and have now been retested and tested positive for Covid-19 . The man, who had not made trips to assume that he contracted the infection abroad, was ill for 15 days and infected his two children, but not his wife.

This makes us suspect that the woman, being asymptomatic, could be at the origin of the contagion in the family. Particularly considering that he works in the fishmonger of a supermarket in which there are customers of Chinese origin. The findings of the practitioners should be published in an article in a specialized magazine next week.

The Ile de France Regional Health Agency is going to analyze these hypotheses, which seem to confirm the thesis that the coronavirus was in France before the first cases that were officially registered so far, dating back to January 24 .

It was a Frenchman of Chinese origin and two Chinese tourists who had passed through the city of Wuhan , where the start of the pandemic is located.

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