He is a former roommate of the patient and a physician, according to health authorities.
The first French patient with the coronavirus he infected others? Health officials fear that a doctor and a former roommate of the patient have in turn been contaminated, and both were hospitalized in Lille and Tourcoing. These two people will suffer samples, the results "will be announced soon," announces the Pas-de-Calais North Regional Health Agency / (ARS).
How were they discovered?
The roommate, a man in his fifties who had rubbed shoulders with the patient during his stay in hospital Valenciennes from 27 to 29 April, "has since Wednesday symptoms requiring specialized infectious disease consultation, supplemented sampling and monitoring in a single room in hospital " , said the LRA.
One of the doctors CH Valenciennes, aged 35, who was also in contact with the patient coronavirus infection, "developed symptoms requiring hospitalization within the infectious diseases service CH Tourcoing in order to take samples " , added the LRA. These two people have been "identified" the gold of the "search" contact cases " , that is to say people who have been in contact with the patient during his hospitalization in hospital Valenciennes, then that of Douai.
That institution, 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 this day among the topics identified in contacts at this " , said the LRA... http://www.francetvinfo.fr/coronavirus-deux-nouvelles-personnes-pourraient-avoir-ete-contaminees-par-le-premier-malade-francais_320927.html#xtor=RSS-3-%5blestitres%5d