The Airbus A380 with 28 French nationals and 36 foreign nationals repatriated from China on board is expected around 10:30 am this Friday at Roissy airport before joining the holiday center in Branville, in Calvados.
The plane chartered by Paris had transported 17 tonnes of material to the epicenter city of the coronavirus epidemic before leaving with the passengers and a medical team.
According to the prefect Philippe Court, these returnees who are "asymptomatic" will have to observe a quarantine period of 14 days in this village called "Normandy Garden". "We will monitor to see if he declares the slightest symptom, so that we can take care of them and hospitalize them," said Christine Gardel, director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Normandy.
Coronavirus spreads to other regions in China
In the meantime, according to a final report from the Chinese authorities, this coronavirus epidemic has left 118 more dead in mainland China, mainly in Hubei province. This brings the number of deaths nationwide to 2,236.
The National Health Commission has also reported 889 new cases of contamination confirmed within 24 hours in mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao). In total, more than 75,000 people have been infected with Covid-19 in China and hundreds elsewhere in more than 25 countries.
Note that more than half of the new infections took place in other Chinese provinces. There are still fears about the possible spread of the virus in the country, despite the drastic traffic restrictions and containment measures adopted in many cities.
China said on Thursday that it has again changed the method of counting patients with the new coronavirus and will now include only those who have passed a laboratory test.
Australian passenger on liner tested positive after evacuation
Two Australian passengers on the Diamond Princess liner, tested positive for the new coronavirus in Australia, were initially tested negative in Japan.
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The news raises questions about the policies of the Japanese authorities, which have authorized hundreds of repatriations. “We have two people who are positive for the Covid-19 virus. These two people have a mild form of the disease, "said Dianne Stephens, acting health manager for the Northern Territory, on Friday.
All 164 Australians evacuated from the ship in quarantine in Japan and returned to their country at the beginning of the week, "had been tested negative for Covid-19 in Japan", according to the authorities.
A total of six Australians were evacuated from the Diamond Princess. They were re-tested in Australia on Friday and two of them described as "an older person" and "a younger person" tested positive.
Earlier this week, 164 Australians who were on board left for northern Australia.
Hundreds of Japanese passengers were also allowed to leave and were only instructed to "stay at home unless absolutely necessary" to get out, to "never" use public transport and to wear a protective mask if they get out .
Coronavirus spreads in cult in South Korea
South Korea announced Friday that it has registered 52 new cases of Covid-19 disease, mostly linked to a Christian sect in a major city, bringing the number of infected patients in that country to 156. Thirty-nine of the new cases are linked to "Shincheonji Church of Jesus" in the city of Daegu, the fourth largest in South Korea, said the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
In total, more than 80 faithful of this church were contaminated. A 61-year-old woman, a member of this Christian sect and who did not know that she had contracted viral pneumonia, allegedly transmitted the virus to them, notably by attending religious services.
The mayor of Daegu, which has more than 2.5 million inhabitants, invited the population to stay at home. For its part, the command of the American army garrison installed in the city which represents a total of about 10,000 people has restricted its access.
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The Shincheonji Church is a sect that claims that its founder, Lee Man-hee, has put on the garments of Jesus Christ and will take 144,000 people to heaven on Judgment Day. The municipality of Daegu said that 1001 faithful of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus could have attended the same offices as the sixties. The South Korean government said on Friday that Daegu and Cheongdo were becoming "special management areas".
For its part, the Shincheonji Church closed all its structures in South Korea and said, in a press release, sorry "that one of our members, who considered having a cold because he had not not gone abroad, contaminated many members of our church, causing concern within the local community. "
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