A coronavirus outbreak detected after a funeral. A man tested positive on Tuesday May 5 at Covid-19 after participating in a funeral in late April in the small village of Vergt in the Dordogne, says France Bleu. Since then, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) has screened a hundred people in its professional and family circle.
Result: eight are positive among the first 40 results. These infected people have none of the symptoms of the virus. They are at home in quarantine.
The family had however respected the limit of twenty people at the church. But several dozen other people ended up at the funeral home and for the family reunion, said the site of the local radio. People are said to have come from Portugal and Switzerland, reports the regional newspaper Sud Ouest.
A “loosening of containment”
The prefect of Dordogne, Frédéric Perissat confirmed Friday that 103 people had to be screened after the discovery of this first patient.
For the prefecture, this is “a case of loosening of containment”. “This is really an illustration of what we do not want to live in the coming weeks,” said the prefect.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths has risen to 218 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 24,594, said Health Director General Jérôme Salomon on Friday who presented deconfinement cards corrected.
