France Announces Two Cases of the Coronavirus from China, the first in Europe
The deadly coronavirus has travelled all the way to Europe as France has announced two cases of a deadly new virus from China, the first in Europe.
The two confirmed cases were
announced on Friday by Agnes Buzyn, the French health minister, who said both
people had travelled to China.
“We have two
cases,” she said. “We will probably have other cases.”
One reason why France is the
first European country to have confirmed cases is that it has developed a test
allowing medics to rapidly diagnose infected people, Buzyn said.
One of the pair, a
48-year-old man, passed through Wuhan, the epicentre in China for the virus,
before travelling to France on Wednesday, she said.
That person is hospitalised
in the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
The other person is in a
Paris hospital.
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