(Fighting new crown pneumonia) French Minister of Health: New cases of new crown pneumonia are likely to be diagnosed in France
China News Agency, Paris, February 23 (Reporter Li Yang) French Minister of Health Viland said on the 23rd local time that France is likely to have new confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia. He also expressed concern about the epidemic development in neighboring Italy.
Weilan revealed on the same day that currently only one confirmed patient with new coronary pneumonia in France is still hospitalized in Lyon, and his condition is relatively stable without any problem. He said that with the exception of an 80-year-old patient who died of ineffective rescue, all other confirmed patients were cured and discharged.
Up to now, there have been 12 confirmed patients with new coronary pneumonia in France, of which 1 patient from Hubei, China has died, and 10 have been discharged. Wiran said there are also the last 28 French returnees from China who are being placed under quarantine observation and there is no indication that any of them are infected.
Wieland also emphasized that France must prepare accordingly for the possibility of neocoronary pneumonia becoming a pandemic disease, and the number of laboratories equipped with new coronavirus diagnostic tests should be "multiplied" with the goal of "the whole method can be performed daily Thousand Analysis Test ".
Weilan also said that related medical equipment is also being purchased. He said that he had convened a health affairs decision-making officer on the 18th to discuss the response to new coronary pneumonia, and considered strengthening information sharing and feedback.
Villan also paid attention to the development of the epidemic in neighboring Italy. Italy has at least 133 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, making it the country with the highest number of confirmed cases in Europe. More than a dozen cities and towns in Lombardy and Veneto in northern Italy were declared a blockade. The blockade area in Italy was not far from the south of France, which aroused the attention of all circles in France.
In addition, French Minister of Finance and Economy Lemer said on the same day that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has impacted the French tourism industry and affected French economic prospects. He said that the epidemic caused a decline in the number of tourists visiting France, which was 30% to 40% lower than expected. (Finish)