Carry-le-Rouet (France) (AFP)
The 180 people repatriated from Wuhan (China) to France on Friday spent their first night of confinement in Carry-le-Rouet, near Marseille, in a holiday center where they will have to stay for 14 days, AFP noted.
Friday evening, the returnees, mostly French, each took possession of individual rooms with modern and minimalist decoration, described an AFP journalist also confined after a week of reporting in Wuhan.
Saturday morning, near the Vacanciel center, the gendarmes continued to closely monitor the only entrance to the site, in the middle of a pine forest, in a cove more than 3 kilometers from the town center of the small seaside resort. A prefectural order banned overflight of the area, including by drones, until Tuesday.
They undertook in writing to respect the 14-day quarantine. They are however free to move around the grounds of the holiday center where medical staff support them 24 hours a day.
In the evening, none of them had passed a thorough medical examination except for a temperature measurement, which will be mandatory twice a day for the duration of the quarantine.
On Friday evening, concern was lifted over the fate of two of the plane's passengers, hospitalized because of suspected contagion, who were tested negative for coronavirus.
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