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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Coronavirus: two new people may have been contaminated by the first French patient



He is a former roommate of the patient and a physician, according to health authorities.  09/05/2013 | 10:08 p.m.

The first French patient with coronavirus he infected others? Health officials fear that a doctor and a former roommate of the patient have in turn been contaminated. They were respectively hospitalized in Lille and Tourcoing to undergo such samples, says Thursday, May 9 regional health agency (ARS).

Test results will be available soon, according to ARS. The roommate, who had rubbed the patient during his stay in hospital Valenciennes from April 27 to 29, "since this Wednesday symptoms requiring specialized consulting infectious diseases, completed sampling and monitoring of hospitalization individual "room, announces ARS. 

One of the doctors at the hospital in Valenciennes, who was also in contact with the patient coronavirus infection, "developed symptoms requiring hospitalization within the infectious diseases service CH Tourcoing order 'draw it down, "says the LRA.The first patient in stable condition but still very serious

By contrast, hospital Douai, where also lived from April 29 infected until his transfer in the night from Wednesday to Thursday at University Hospital of Lille patient, "indicates the absence of symptoms to date among contact subjects identified in this property, "said the LRA.

The northerner patient with novel coronavirus, SARS close, first confirmed case in France, Thursday in stable condition but still very serious, the ICU of University Hospital of Lille, where he was transferred in the night from Wednesday to Thursday . This 65 year old patient transferred to 1:30 am, "was immediately placed in a chamber designed to allow its isolation." It was supported by a dedicated team, said the Lille University Hospital.