Six cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 were detected in total in New Aquitaine, three new cases, contacts of a precedent in Bordeaux, having been proven after sequencing in recent days, announced Tuesday, May 4, the Regional Agency for health.
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Last Friday, the ARS revealed the detection of three cases of the Indian variant in the region - a couple in Lot-et-Garonne in the area of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, a man in Bordeaux-, who were then among the first case in mainland France, with two cases in Bouches-du-Rhône, and after two cases in Guadeloupe.
The Bordeaux case concerned a man, working in an international company and who had returned on April 18 from a professional trip to India. Among the “high-
risk contact cases
” identified, four had tested positive for covid-19, mainly in his family circle. On Tuesday, the ARS announced in a press release that the sequencing carried out by the National Reference Center in Lyon showed the presence in three of the four people "
of the same variant as the initial case
", a derivative of the Indian variant. The fourth person was screened for the English variant, and checks are underway to "
confirm that it is indeed an English variant
". In this specific case, the contamination "
therefore seems at this stage to beanother origin
", Estimates the ARS.
With the two Lot-et-Garonnais cases - a woman who had traveled to India in March and her husband - the initial Bordeaux case, and its three sequenced contacts, six people with the Indian variant have therefore been identified to date in New -Aquitaine.
The ARS press release on Tuesday did not give any details on the condition of the patients, but it indicated on Friday that the first three cases revealed, patients under the age of 55, were "
well
", and that none were suffered from "
severe form, everyone (being) at home with little or no symptoms
".
The ARS added that the "
propagation is under control
".