The tests carried out on nearly fifty people in the Savoyard commune of Contamines-Montjoie, where five cases of coronavirus were detected, turned out to be negative, said this Sunday the director general of Health, Jérôme Salomon. In total, a hundred tests have or will be done in this ski resort of Haute-Savoie, according to the French Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, who visited the site.
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" Probably more than 100 " tests will be carried out in total on families, children and those likely to have been " in contact " with the five British nationals, she said to journalists. On Sunday, 46 samples taken, mainly from children, turned out to be negative, said Jérôme Salomon at a press briefing.
