Among all the coronavirus patients on French territory, 11 are part of a group returned from a stay in Egypt. However, the land of the Pharaohs has only two sick people, and one of them is cured. And hard to believe that these holidaymakers really had no luck and crossed one of these two contaminated on the road to the pyramids ... "Egypt, like Iran, is one of the countries from which we can measure the importance of the epidemic by imported cases, explains Marius Gilbert epidemiologist at the Free University of Brussels. It is impossible that the cases of sick people are limited to two. ”
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A total of 82 countries are officially affected by the disease. Like Egypt, many countries have a surprisingly low number of patients. Burma as North Korea does not claim any patient, Laos only one, Indonesia two ... "These countries of Southeast Asia are very exposed, adds Marius Gilbert. There is no reason why the number of patients should be
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