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  • Health officials revealed on Friday that a new Covid-19 cluster had formed in Périgord after a funeral.
  • Since then, nine out of 127 people have tested positive. The ARS announces that the outbreak is now under control.
  • The family of the deceased defended himself and said that "everything was done according to the rules" on the day of the funeral.

Even if his name is not (yet) mentioned, this inhabitant of the Eglise-Neuve-de-Vergt in the Dordogne cannot pretend that nothing is wrong. Since Friday and the discovery of a new cluster (home) of Covid-19, we only speak of the funeral of his father at the origin of it two weeks earlier. At the funeral, a significant number of people would have gathered and some would even have come from abroad.

A version challenged by this Périgourdin, son of the deceased, this Sunday in Sud Ouest or France Bleu Périgord. If he confirms that his mother came from Portugal and two from Switzerland, he insists that "everything was done according to the rules" with permits. Some couples have even been checked on the way.

No family reunion in number depending on the family

Regarding the different times of the burial, there too, he defends himself: “There were 20 of us in church with gloves and masks. At the funeral home, we were no more. Everyone went to see the body, one by one. In the cemetery, there were maybe thirty of us. But inside the gates, we were only the close family. The others were outside. "

A source of contamination discovered after a funeral in Dordogne https://t.co/s6TxhKhOjv

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So there would never have been 50 to 70 people grouped together at the same time and no family reunion either since everyone would have gone home in stride.

"The situation is now under control"

Despite everything, a week later this resident of the small village of Pays Vernois contracted the symptoms of Covid-19. Since the Regional Health Agency in New Aquitane announced this Saturday to have tested no less than 127 people including some abroad. So far, nine of them have tested positive, although all the results are not yet known. They are in quarantine. According to the ARS, thanks to the doctor's responsiveness and the search for "contact cases", the "situation is now under control".

[Press point # COVID19] “I salute the exceptional work of the doctor from the Vergt MSP who made it possible to quickly organize an extended screening of contact persons. This collective mobilization is the key to success ”M. Laforcade, DG ARS NA

- ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine (@ARS_NAquit) May 9, 2020

[Press point # COVID19] "This grouped case is not new, ARS NA has already mastered 29 grouped cases (excluding nursing homes) since the start of the epidemic" M. Laforcade, DG ARS NA

- ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine (@ARS_NAquit) May 9, 2020

For his part, the son of the deceased and his family who "all feel stigmatized and have the impression of having served as an example a few days before the deconfinement".

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