Coronavirus: new suspects on World Military Games, but France denies

What if the coronavirus had spread to Wuhan earlier than officially communicated? What if he infected the athletes who participated in the World Military Games which took place in the capital of Hubei at the end of October? To revive the theory, already circulated in recent weeks, were the latest statements by the French pentathlete Elodie Clouvel who, interviewed by the television station Loire7 to discuss the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, explained that she does not fear a possible contamination from Covid-19: "I think that with Valentin (Belaud, another pentathlete) we already had the coronavirus because we were in Wuhan for the Military Games. We got sick, he missed three days of training, I had problems never before. And when we talked to a military doctor, he said: I think you have already had it because most of the delegation she got sick. "

    The French delegation that participated in the military games was made up of 406 people including 281 athletes and, following suspicions of possible cases of Covid-19 on returning from Wuhan, the Ministry of Armed Forces, which so far had not officially spoken, has released a clarification that denies that some athletes have contracted the virus. "The Ministry wishes to remind you that when the World Military Summer Games took place from 18 to 27 October 2019, in Wuhan, China, the epidemic linked to Covid-19 was not known at the time - reads the note published by the team - The first Covid-19 case was reported by China to the WHO only on December 31, two months after the event ended. "

"The French delegation benefited from the medical monitoring, before and during the Games, with a dedicated team of about twenty people - continues the Ministry -. There were no cases declared in the French delegation during and on the return from the assimilable Games, in retrospect, at the home of Covid-19. So far, as far as we know, no other country represented at the Wuhan event has reported similar cases. "