A French hospital opened a COVID-19 case last December: the EU

A French hospital re-analyzed samples from pneumonia patients and found that it had treated a patient with COVID-19 on December 27, almost a month before the French government reported the first cases, BTA reported, citing AFP and Reuters.

Yves Cohen, head of the intensive care unit at two Parisian hospitals, told BFM that the researchers had re-analyzed samples from 24 patients treated between December 2019 and January 2020.

The sample of one of them, taken on December 27, was positive. He is a 42-year-old patient, according to the study, published in an international scientific journal. This shows that COVID-19 was distributed in France in late December 2019, one month before the first officially confirmed cases, the authors note.

More than 25,000 people have died of coronavirus in France

The number of victims of COVID-19 in France reached 25,201, and 24 victims have been registered in the last 24 hours, the French health service announced today. The workload of intensive care units continues to decrease, and the number of patients hospitalized with Kovid-19 decreases by 123. However, the number of severe cases remains high, reaching 3,696, according to the report.

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