While the south-west has so far been more or less spared by the coronavirus pandemic, a new focus of contamination has been detected in the Dordogne. Two days before deconfinement and while the challenge is to break the chains of contamination, this group of patients identified a few kilometers from Périgueux does indeed show the consequences of a possible relaxation.
The origin of the contamination? A funeral, organized in late April, following which a man tested positive for Covid-19. Since then, a hundred people around him have been screened by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) within the Portuguese community, according to France Bleu. Eight tested positive among the first 40 results.
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Dozens of loved ones at the funeral home
The sanitary rules in the event of funerals were however clear: no more than twenty people during the religious ceremony, and in the cemetery (employees of the funeral directors included). In the context of these funerals, organized in the small commune of Église-Neuve-de-Vergt, these rules were not observed. If there were fewer than twenty people in the church, several dozen relatives gathered at the funeral home and at the family reunion. From contact to contact, we quickly reach a hundred people concerned, and therefore tested, even beyond the family circle.
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All asymptomatic
"This is really an illustration of what we do not want to experience in the coming weeks," reacted the prefect of Dordogne, Frédéric Périssat, to the microphone of France Bleu Dordogne, denouncing a case of loosening of confinement.
The proven patients were systematically placed in solitary confinement. All were asymptomatic.
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