A person in the fortnight in a hotel in New Caledonia was detected positive at Covid-19, Wednesday then Thursday morning, and transferred to the dedicated unit of the CHT. According to the government, which evokes “The biological scars of an old infection”, it would no longer be contagious.
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Posted on May 28, 2020 at 3:10 p.m., updated on May 28, 2020 at 6:27 p.m.
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A person repatriated from Metropolis on May 12 was tested positive for Covid-19 after the fortnight it carried out in a requisitioned hotel, the government announced on Thursday. By weighting immediately: “His test, as well as a serological analysis, revealed biological scars from an old infection more than a month old. ”
Waiting for other results
The first screening took place Wednesday. The results being “Very slightly positive”, a new test was done this Thursday morning which “Also turned out very weakly positive “. As provided for in the DASS health protocol, “that person, not contagious, was transferred to the Covid-19 unit at CHT until the two tests, performed 48 hours apart, were clearly negative. “
At a press point
The news fell by surprise and live this Thursday, when a press point dedicated to the health crisis was organized in the government. “It made 52 days that there were no positive cases in New Caledonia, started Thierry Santa. We can therefore already say that the virus is not circulating in New Caledonia. “ Yes, but ! There is therefore this positive feedback to take into account until possible proof to the contrary.
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Last positive case in early April
The country remained arrested at a number of eighteen cases Covid-19 since March 18. The last positive screening was in At the beginning of April. Will this new situation call into question the release of the deconfinement system on June 14?
“It is not this case that will change things”
It “was envisaged from the start,” replied the President of the Government. “This is the very interest of the fortnight that we have set up: consider [qu’]an imported case arrives in New Caledonia and be able to control it before it spreads over the territory. It was by definition for this kind of situation that our system at the entrance of New Caledonia was put in place. So [ça] is not going to influence the rest of the events. “
The press point to find here:
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