CORONAVIRUSES. On Saturday February 8, the plane from Wuhan (China) carrying 38 French expatriates from Wuhan to London landed. Agnès Buzyn arrived at Contamines-Montjoie, a ski resort in which five new cases of coronavirus have been identified.
13:31 – Contamines-Montjoie: test results will arrive “in the evening”
On Saturday February 8, five Britons who were staying in Contamines-Montjoie were identified as carrying the coronavirus. People who have been in contact with them have been tested. The results are expected to arrive “in the evening,” as Agnès Buzyn, the Minister of Health, said.
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12:45 – A second case of coronavirus identified in Spain
In Spain, a second case of coronavirus has been identified. Like the five new cases spotted in France, he is a Briton. He is currently in solitary confinement in Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. We don’t know more about her health and identity.
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12:00 – How is the Contamines-Montjoie resort coping with the situation?
On Saturday February 8, five new cases of coronavirus were discovered in France, in the Contamines-Montjoie ski resort. One of the infected children went to two schools, one in Saint-Gervais and one in Contamines. These two buildings were closed as a precaution, for a week, as revealed by Le Dauphiné Libéré.
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11:52 – Passengers stranded on liner in Hong Kong released
On Sunday February 9, the 1,800 passengers and 1,800 crew members of a liner in Hong Kong were finally authorized to disembark. They were placed in quarantine for five days. Health authorities in the former British colony are forcing them to stay on board. As a reminder, three infected Chinese passengers were on the ship.
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11:30 – Who are the five new French cases?
On Saturday February 8, five new cases of coronavirus were identified in France. All had stayed with a man returning from Singapore to Contamines-Montjoie (Haute-Savoie). They are four adults and a child, all hospitalized in different establishments in the region. They are all British. “Their clinical condition is of no concern,” said Health Minister Agnès Buzyn.
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11:05 am – The 38 French expatriates have landed in London
On Sunday February 9, as expected, 38 other French expatriates landed in London. They boarded a flight chartered by the British authorities to repatriate their nationals. The French should be isolated for fourteen days, the incubation period of the new coronavirus.
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11:00 – In Paris, Belleville traders very worried
Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, traders in Belleville, Paris, have been victims of a considerable drop in their turnover. Their usual consumers would have decided to desert these businesses as a precaution. “My boss wonders how we are going to get out of it. If it continues like this, it will be bankruptcy,” said a Chinese hairdresser to our colleagues at France Info.
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10:30 am – Agnès Buzyn expected in Contamines-Montjoie to reassure the population
On Saturday February 8, five new cases of coronavirus were identified in the Contamines-Montjoie ski resort. Since this announcement, residents have been frightened. Sunday, February 9, the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn will go on the spot to reassure them and will be able “to meet the families, the parents of pupils to explain to them concretely, as she knows how to do it, that all the measures are implemented to ensuring health security throughout the territory of Contamines-Montjoie “.
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09:59 – The balance of Sras exceeded
On Saturday February 8, Chinese authorities are now reporting 811 deaths from the coronavirus. The global assessment of SARS in 2003 is thus exceeded as announced by the National Health Commission on Sunday 09 February. Two other deaths have been reported: one in the Philippines and another in Hong Kong. SARS had killed 774 people.
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