Five British nationals including a child have tested positive for the
new coronavirus in France, the health minister said Saturday, adding
that they had all stayed at the same ski chalet.
France has now detected a total of 11 cases of the novel coronavirus.
The new "cluster" is centred on a Briton who had returned from
Singapore and stayed in Contamines-Montjoie, near Mont Blanc in the
French Alps for four days from January 24, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn
said.
"They show no serious signs" of a life-threatening infection added Buzyn, herself a doctor.
The Briton at the centre of the new cases is now in Britain and was
not counted among the French tally, she told a press conference.
In addition to the five Britons who have tested positive for the
virus, six other Britons staying in the same chalet have also been
hospitalised for observation, the minister said.
Altogether there were seven adults on holiday in one apartment in the
chalet and a father with his three children who lived in another, local
authorities said.
Authorities in France and Singapore are now trying to contact people
who came into close contact with the initially infected Briton, she
said.
He was on a business trip and had stayed at a hotel on January 22-22
for an event with 94 other foreigners, according to senior health
official Jerome Salomon who attended the press briefing along with
Buzyn.
Other "clusters" have been identified in Malaysia and South Korea around people who attended the same event, he said.
Singapore officials say 109 people in all -- some of them from Hubei,
the Chinese province at the heart of the health crisis -- attended the
meeting at the Grand Hyatt hotel.
All foreign participants have since left Singapore and the health
authorities of their home countries have been notified, they added.
The UK authorities said they were aware of the latest development and
were "contacting people who were in close contact with any of the cases
that have been confirmed in the UK, to provide them with health
advice."
"We are working closely with the French authorities," Public Health England said in a statement.
The 11 Britons were sent to hospitals in Lyon, Grenoble, and Saint-Etienne.
The novel coronavirus which erupted in Wuhan, central China, in
December has already infected more than 34,500 people and killed more
than 700, according to the latest official figures from China.
- Schools closed for investigation -
French local authorities, urging calm, said two schools where the
British child, aged nine, had gone, would be closed next week to allow
his contacts to be traced and investigated.
Parents of about 250 children in one school and some 100 in the other
would be informed and questioned about their health, officials said.
"We start from the principle that children who do not exhibit
symptoms are not infected but they will be under observation during the
incubation period," said Anne-Marie Durand, head of the regional public
health authority.
William Keevil, professor of Environmental Healthcare at the
University of Southampton, noted how the latest case involving a child
showed "that this virus is not limited to older, more vulnerable people
and one infected person can cause a cluster of cases."
Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health at the same
university, added: "Singapore is a major transport hub in Southeast
Asia, so going forward, we may well find further international cases
that have travelled through Singapore.
"The French ski resort will have citizens from numerous other
countries there, so there are implications for potential onward
transmission. Most of the six previous cases in France appear to have
been treated successfully, though all are still in the hospital," he
said.
Separately the French government ministry issued a warning against
any travel to China unless there was an "imperative" reason to go.
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