Fifth case of coronavirus in France
A fifth case of coronavirus has been detected in France 鈥� the daughter of the Chinese tourist who remains in a serious condition in a Paris hospital.
It comes as France announces it has developed a test to detect the virus in a few hours which should be made available in public hospitals this week.
The 80-year-old Chinese tourist is still in intensive care at Bichat hospital, where is also hospitalised his daughter, as well as a previous victim, a 31-year-old man whose condition has worsened.
The other victims are a 30-year-old woman who is at Bichat hospital, and a 48-year-old man hospitalised in Bordeaux.
The Chinese tourist and his daughter arrived in France on January 23. The 80-year-old man first came at the hospital Georges Pompidou on Saturday 25 but was not considered as a suspected case as he did not show any breathing issues and just had fever.
The definition of 鈥榮uspected cases鈥� has now been updated, the health minister Agn猫s Buzyn said, 鈥渢o expand the capacity to track cases coming into our territory鈥�. Any person coming from an area where there is significant human-to-human transmission will now be considered suspect.
A first flight has left Paris yesterday and will repatriate 200 麻豆传媒映画 from Wuhan in China, which is the centre of the epidemic, on Friday.
