In France, it could have already been given at the end of December a Coronavirus case. The infection was discovered in hindsight – it is the 43-year-old Amirouche Hammar from the vicinity of Paris.
He had dry cough, fever, tiredness and severe respiratory complaints, said Hammar the TV station BFMTV on Tuesday.
In the hospital of Bobigny a lung infection was diagnosed. He can’t say for sure what he has – only that it would be very serious, told Hammar.
After a few days he was able to leave the hospital again.
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The Doctors of a hospital group in Paris have already tested samples taken from people with severe respiratory infections, and although Sars-CoV-2.
It was patients and patients in whom at that time no reliable diagnosis could be. Several samples tested positive on Covid-19 was – she was a patient at 27. December was admitted to the hospital: Amirouche Hammar.
Coronavirus is dragging, presumably by travelers introduced
Hammar infected his children. Only recently he learned that he was infected with the Coronavirus. He was contacted by Professor Yves Cohen, head of the intensive care unit of the hospital group Avicenne-Jean Verdier,.
Hammar had no Connections to China and had not traveled abroad before, he was in December, ill. The cause of his infection is open.
His wife works in a supermarket in the proximity of the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, and could have brought the Virus home with them, possibly she was an asymptomatic case.
There have been customers that come directly from the airport.
A spokesman for the world health organization (WHO) described the positive corona virus test in France by the end of December as “very interesting, but not surprising”.
In the Chinese city of Wuhan, it had been in December, mysterious, and not as infections with a new Virus detected in lung diseases.
People from Wuhan, might have introduced the Virus when traveling in December, unconsciously, to France and other countries.
“It is well possible that there are other, earlier cases in other countries to be discovered, if tissue samples now will be in hindsight on the Virus tested,” said WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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