May 12, 2013
Marisol Touraine, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, visited the Institute of Health Surveillance this Sunday, May 12, after the confirmation of a second infection with the new coronavirus (NCoV) in France. After consulting with the teams of epidemiologists mobilized to identify people who have been in contact with the second patient, she detailed the national system of epidemiological investigation established.
3 epidemiological investigations are being conducted in parallel by the health authorities:
- For the first 124 people who had contact with the first patient during his hospital stays. They have all been contacted and it is this research that has identified the second patient;
- the second focuses on the 39 people who participated in April the same tour the United Arab Emirates as the first patient;
- the third concerns the 38 people who were in contact with the second patient prior to hospitalization in isolation, May 9 at Lille. Individualized advice will be issued to them.
"These measures are designed to have the most accurate description of the situation day by day, to inform all concerned, to provide them with hygiene common sense to take care of without time if necessary. " "Nothing is left to chance," said Marisol Touraine.
Moreover, the minister recalled that information (posters and leaflets) to the travelers to the Near or Middle East device was introduced Saturday, May 11 in French airports.
The toll of information to the public is available Monday to Saturday from 9h to 19h (0800 13 00 00). The phone platform also remained exceptionally open this Sunday, May 12 to 20h. http://www.social-sante.gouv.fr/actualite-presse,42/communiques,2322/nouveau-coronavirus-presentation,15823.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
