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France registered this Friday the first case of infection with the new variant of the covid-19 virus that appeared in the United Kingdom, announced the French Ministry of Health.
According to the French health authorities, cited by AFP, the case was detected in the city of Tours (central France) in a French citizen who lives in the United Kingdom and is asymptomatic and isolated at home.
The Ministry of Health also said that this citizen arrived from London on December 19 and that after conducting a test on December 21, he was positive, being the first case of contagion with the “VOC 202012/01” variant of the covid virus. 19 detected in France.
According to the same source, this information was confirmed by the National Reference Center for Respiratory Infections Viruses (NRC).
“The health authorities carried out contact examinations to the health professionals who attended this patient and to the closest contacts to carry out his prophylactic isolation,” says the French Ministry of Health.
The same source adds that, in addition to this case, the laboratories are analyzing other positive samples suspected of being the “VOC 202012/01” variant.
Similar cases have already been detected in Germany, in a woman who arrived by plane from the United Kingdom, and in Lebanon, also in a passenger from that European country.
British authorities alerted the World Health Organization on Saturday of the discovery of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, which is more easily transmissible, although there is no evidence that it is more lethal or that it may affect the effectiveness of developed vaccines. .
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