Declared positive for the coronavirus on February 28, Father Alexandre Comte spent three days at the Bichat hospital, before joining his Parisian presbytery. Like he had nothing, taking the subway. Still sick, this 43-year-old young priest was not surprised that he could have been allowed to use public transport last Monday. “The hospital gave me a mask and I was wearing gloves. This was enough to avoid contamination, " he says, now in solitary confinement at home. In a presbytery in the capital where he resides, two priests drop him his meals outside his door.
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Alexandre Comte believes he was infected in Italy on February 14. On that day, he was traveling on a highway in the Milan region, affected by the epidemic. "I stopped for lunch. I didn’t engage in any particular conversation, but I guess that’s where I got the virus, ” he says. It was only eleven days later that everything was declared.
He performs a test on February 27 in Bichat. The next day, the results fall. Despite any symptoms, the test is positiveThe 25th
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