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Coronavirus: testimony of a French couple returned to mainland France

2020-02-17T21:05:43.022Z


They were passengers on the Westerdam, this cruise liner condemned to wander at sea for eleven days because of the psychosis linked to the epidemic. Back in Brittany, they tell.


"The descent of the boat in Cambodia was very moving ." This is the memory that Jean-Pierre and Martine Fuchs will leave with the arrival Thursday at Sihanoukville of the Westerdam , after eleven days of wandering at sea. Like them, 1200 cruise passengers have thus disembarked. But other emotions have since taken over for the 74 and 71-year-old couple, living in Morbihan, in Brittany. The first of these is the surprise, when they learned on Saturday evening that one of the passengers on their cruise to Asia had tested positive for coronavirus. " We thought we were white as snow, but ultimately we may be a little gray ", notes the Breton.

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Returned by plane by the shipowner Holland America, the two retirees landed on Saturday in Paris. We passed like any passenger from any destination. There was no control at the airport, ”reports Jean-Pierre Fuchs. When they had just returned home by train, the couple received a call from the Ministry of Health. " They have us

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