The coronavirus has not yet crossed the French borders. While psychosis continues to spread to China, with the quarantine of the cities of Wuhan and Huanggang, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, wanted to be reassuring about the risk of contracting this mysterious virus in France.
"There are no doubtful cases in France," she tempered during a press point on Thursday. "The emergency services are on alert," she insisted, saying that the authorities were able to establish "a very rapid diagnosis". If in doubt, "the way to go is to call 15," she said.
Nearly 600 people affected
Agnes Buzyn also drew up a brief inventory of the situation in China, with nearly "600 people affected by the virus", "a hundred" of patients hospitalized "for serious cases" and 17 dead.
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The minister confirmed, "all the first cases come from a market with live animals" in Wuhan. The incubation would be "two to 12 days". According to his statements, caregivers have themselves "caught" the virus after being "in contact with the sick".