In France is one among five British citizens, according to the government coronaInfection has been detected. They would have stayed at the Contamines-Monjoie resort on Mont Blanc in the same property as another Brit who had traveled from Singapore.
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He was diagnosed with the infection from Friday to Saturday at night, Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn said. Among the newly infected was a child who had attended a French school on site. According to the authorities, two schools in the area will remain closed for the time being.
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The group was hospitalized in good health in the region. In addition, six other British people are being observed in hospitals who had close contact with the infected. The disease can break out up to two weeks after infection.
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The incident falls during the peak skiing season on Mont Blanc. Holidays are in France, and holidays are also in Great Britain.
Almost 35,000 infected worldwide
The French government met on Saturday to discuss how to proceed. There are now eleven Corona cases in the country. In the UK, the number of people infected is three. In Germany it was 14 on Friday evening (more on that read here).
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Almost 35,000 people are affected worldwide. Most infected people are in the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, where the epidemic originated. More than 720 people have died – almost exclusively in China.
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Germany wants to bring back more citizens from Wuhan this weekend. There are “individual people” who only reported after the first return flight last Saturday or who had not made it to the airport in time, according to the Federal Foreign Office. “We are working hard to enable these people to leave the country.”
The German Bundeswehr had Germans and their families with a special machine last week flown out of Wuhan, Around 120 passengers on the flight have been in quarantine in a barracks in the Palatinate town of Germersheim. The virus was found in two passengers.
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