Eight of the nine people hospitalized in the United Kingdom to have contracted the new coronavirus left the hospital, announced this Saturday February 15, the British public health service, the NHS.
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The patients were able to leave where they were treated after two negative tests, the NHS said, adding that the 94 people who were quarantined in a hospital in Liverpool (west of England) had also been able to return home .
" Over the next few weeks, many of us may have to spend time confined to our homes to reduce the spread of the virus, " warned NHS professor Keith Willett, hailing " the great example " that had given these patients " calm and responsible " faced with " a trying situation ".
On the other hand, more than a hundred people are still under observation in Milton Keynes, north of London, said the public health service.
In France, a first death
" I am happy to see that eight of the nine people tested positive for the new coronavirus were successfully treated and discharged from the hospital, " said Health Minister Matt Hancock, insisting that they do not present now. " No risk to public health ".
This announcement comes when France has just listed the first death linked to the new coronavirus outside Asia, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist hospitalized in France since the end of January and died Friday evening.
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The epidemic of viral pneumonia detected in China in December in Hubei province (center) infected more than 66,000 people and killed more than 1,500 in the country.
