DIRECT. Coronavirus: three new cases of contamination in France, a dog tested positive in Hong Kong

• China, where the new coronavirus had appeared in December, published this Friday a new assessment of 327 new cases and 44 deaths in the last 24 hours.
• The number of people infected in France has increased to 41 confirmed cases. In particular, a household of twelve people, probably in contact with the first patient to die in the Oise, was identified.
• A case of contamination with the new coronavirus is confirmed in Nigeria, the first in sub-Saharan Africa.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) calls on all countries still spared to prepare for the arrival of Covid-19.

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10:20. Switzerland bans all major events due to the coronavirus. Switzerland decides to ban at least until March 15 any public or private event bringing together more than 1,000 people, due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus which has contaminated nine people on its territory.

10:05. A dog tested positive for coronavirus placed in quarantine in Hong-Kong. The dog of a woman affected by the coronavirus is placed in quarantine in Hong Kong after samples taken from the animal have tested positive for coronavirus, announce this Friday the authorities, even if there is no risk of contagion of the pet to man is not proven. The dog has no symptoms of the disease, said the Hong Kong Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environmental Protection.

9:50. White plan triggered at the Dijon CHU. This exceptional health system will make it possible to isolate the contaminated patients in this CHU where four people have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Coronavirus: the daily life of our journalist confined since his return from reporting