A first case of an Indian variant has been identified in Lot-et-Garonne, announced this Thursday, April 29, Benoît Elleboode, the director general of the ARS of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, to our colleagues at BFMTV.
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I do not think that this is the first case in France, but this is the first case in our area in Lot-et-Garonne, which was confirmed as the sequencing was done in Toulouse
"
,
he has indicated.
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Earlier this week, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, had however declared that no contamination by the Indian variant had yet been detected in metropolitan France.
A suspected case, who also returned from India with the Covid, has also been identified in Bordeaux.
“
It is suspected that this is the Indian variant on screening.
The virus is being sequenced at the Bordeaux University Hospital and we will have the answer at the end of the week,
”added the Director General of the New Aquitaine ARS.
The two cases "
are not for the moment serious cases
" and "
they are not hospitalized
".
