About fifty Chinese travelers tested positive at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport on Sunday.
Coming from different countries, they all went to Shanghai and were placed in solitary confinement.
New tests, the results of which are expected, were carried out on Monday.
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A strange phenomenon was observed at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
49 Chinese passengers, in transit to Shanghai, tested positive for the coronavirus this Sunday.
They are currently isolated in a hotel, but these concordant tests question.
Indeed, these passengers did not come from the same country and were simply waiting for a joint connection to reach China.
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Different origins
Thus, 17 of them came from Lima, Peru, and had arrived in Paris on an Air France flight.
The others came straight from Bogota (Colombia), Istanbul (Turkey), Panama and Mauritius.
They had no connection between them.
PCR tests are requested by China for all travelers, departing or in transit, who wish to go to its territory.
These 49 positive tests of nationals are therefore surprising and have not yet been explained.
Paris Airport has hypothesized "false negatives" (that is, the tests would have given the wrong result).
A supposition still under caution, the tests being carried out on site and therefore normally subject to good monitoring.
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New tests have been carried out
The fifty or so passengers detained in France were therefore tested again.
The results should fall within a few hours.
If the tests prove negative, travelers will be able to resume their journey and return to China.