the Doctor one of the French hospitals said that at the end of December he treated a patient had Covid-19. The symptoms of coronavirus in patients a few weeks before the beginning of the epidemic spoken in California.
If a positive test from the French “early” patient is confirmed, it means that the coronavirus could be in Europe a month earlier than believed in who.
December case of infection in France found after re-analysis of the smear taken from the patient. That the new analysis gave a positive result, said the attending physician of the patient, Yves Cohen.
information about the first cases of infection is very important for understanding the course of the epidemic.
the who Representative Christian Lindmeier called national health service to double-check the filing of the hospitals to get a clearer view of how to spread the virus.
In the French Ministry of health bi-Bi-si said that the government still checks early in the case, which Cohen says, but, if necessary, will investigate.
France is not the only country where talking about early cases of infection. Two weeks ago the autopsy of a patient in California has shown that the first coronavirus-related death in the U.S. occurred almost a month earlier than we thought.
Tuesday’s statement on the early cases Covid-19 was also made by the chief epidemiologist of Sweden Anders Tegnell. He said that earlier cases Covid-19 from the Europeans who came from China, should not surprise the experts.
However, the patient was found by the French physician, says that he does not understand where they could get infected. He hasn’t traveled abroad before hospitalization.
Dr. Eve Cohen, head of the intensive care units of the hospital and Avicenna hospital names Jean Verdier, near Paris. He says “early” the patient was a 43-year-old man from the commune of Bobigny, to North-East from the capital.
a Patient named Amirul Ammar was admitted to hospital on December 27 with a dry cough, fever and difficulty breathing. These symptoms later became known as the main signs of coronavirus.
It happened four days before the who regional office in China has notified the patients with pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan.
In an interview with French channel BFMTV Ammar said that hasn’t been out of France before he was in the hospital. According to Dr. Cohen, the children of Ammar are also infected, and the wife did not have symptoms.
However, the doctor noted that the wife of Ammar worked in a supermarket near the airport of Charles de Gaulle and there could contact with people coming from China.
“We think that she could have had asymptomatic,” says Dr. Cohen.
is it Possible that��coronavirus walked across Europe at the end of 2019, a few weeks before it is here recognized as a threat? This version appeared after the French doctor said about a patient with symptoms of coronavirus admitted to him shortly after Christmas.
How does this change our perspective on the current pandemic? Perhaps the retest will give a negative result, and it turns out that the positive test was a mistake. If so, then nothing changes.
the European laboratory, the disposal of which is analyses of patients with similar symptoms will probably have to double-check for coronavirus to understand more about this disease.
Until now, experts believed that three cases of coronavirus reported in France January 24, was the first in the country. Two of the patients had recently arrived from Wuhan, and the third was a member of their family.
As previously thought, the first case of transmission of the virus from person to person in Europe occurred in Germany. Male-German caught from flew from Wuhan colleagues between 19 and 22 January.
“This means that we may have very little time assessing the situation and making decisions,” says Cao.
As said on the bi-Bi-si Dr. Eve Cohen, the decision to retest patients with pneumonia admitted during the period December to 16 January, he took himself.
Cohen found 14 patients with negative tests for pneumonia. Labs that have been thawed and tested for Covid-19.
Of the 14 samples positive for virus gave one. Re-test also gave a positive result. MRI of the thoracic region of the patient, too, was like a painting in patients with Covid-19.
a More detailed report on the “early” patient will be released this week in the journal International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, added Cohen.
