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Covid-19: the Indian variant detected in Belgium in students who passed through Paris

2021-04-22T21:11:48.818Z


The " Indian " variant of the coronavirus was detected for the first time in Belgium among a group of students who arrived this month from India via the Parisian airport of Roissy, an official source told Thursday (April 22nd) at Brussels. The services of Pedro Facon, who has the title of Belgian government commissioner in charge of the health crisis, confirmed to AFP information from the media an


The "

Indian

"

variant

of the coronavirus was detected for the first time in Belgium among a group of students who arrived this month from India via the Parisian airport of Roissy, an official source told Thursday (April 22nd) at Brussels.

The services of Pedro Facon, who has the title of Belgian government commissioner in charge of the health crisis, confirmed to AFP information from the media and Belgian experts.

Read also: Indian variant: should flights be suspended and a quarantine imposed with India?

A total of 20 Indian students tested positive for the new variant and placed in quarantine in the Flemish cities of Aalst (11) and Leuven (9), where they arrived in mid-April for nursing training. According to several experts, they would have been victims of a "

super contaminator

", perhaps within their group, during the bus trip that brought them from the Paris region to Belgium.

These students respect strict isolation since their arrival.

20 of the 43 students are so far infected with the Indian variant

, ”tweeted microbiologist Emmanuel André, from the Catholic University of Louvain.

Virologist Marc Van Ranst, another prominent Belgian expert in the crisis, told Flemish radio that the group landed in Roissy on April 12, and that five days later several students fell ill, with symptoms of the virus. .

The analyzes carried out in the reference laboratory of the University of Louvain made it possible to diagnose the presence of the Indian variant, already identified in the United Kingdom and which is causing concern.

Source: lefigaro

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