Coronavirus: a first French death and new cases on the rise

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A first Frenchman died after being infected with the new coronavirus, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in Paris, announced the Ministry of Health. It is a 60-year-old man who was one of the 5 new cases detected in France.

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Including this deceased patient, five new cases were confirmed in France between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. For the time being, the Covid-19 virus has killed two people: a 60-year-old Frenchman and an octogenarian Chinese tourist. Eleven patients have recovered and four are still hospitalized, for a total of 17 cases.

" The 17th confirmed case is a 60-year-old French man who was tested in emergency yesterday at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in a very serious state and who unfortunately died during the night, " number two announced. ministry, Jérôme Salomon, director general of health, at a press conference this Wednesday.

" The investigation was launched as a matter of urgency " into the place where this patient could have been infected and his entourage, he added, adding that " all the details of the investigations in progress " would be presented by the minister Olivier Véran at a new press conference in the evening.

"A 55 year old Frenchman in a serious clinical situation ... "

In addition to the deceased sixty-year-old, two new cases of infection with the coronavirus were confirmed Wednesday, in addition to the two already announced Tuesday evening.

One is " a 55-year-old French man currently hospitalized in Amiens and who is in a serious clinical situation [...] in intensive care, " said Prof. Salomon.

The other case unveiled this Wednesday morning is " a 36-year-old French man hospitalized in Strasbourg who shows no sign of seriousness, " he continued. The patient was returning from Lombardy, one of the Italian regions affected by the disease, said Jérôme Salomon.

Negative results on a school group returning from Lombardy

The two cases announced Tuesday evening were a Chinese woman who returned from China on February 7, hospitalized in Paris without " any clinical sign of seriousness ", and a " man in his sixties years hospitalized in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes after repeated stays in Lombardy ”, for whom there is no sign of gravity either, recalled Jérôme Salomon.

Finally, children from a “ Courbevoie school group returning from a trip to Lombardy ” were also tested because some of them presented symptoms, but the results are “ negative ”.

( With AFP )

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