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Based on details from an AFP report, it appears that France’s first imported coronavirus case returned from a visit to Dubai (spanning Apr. 9th-17th) and was hospitalized on April 23rd in Valenciennes, a town of about 40,000 people in the north of France near the Belgium border.
On April 29th, the 65-year-old man was transferred to a hospital in Douai, a distance of about 41 km.
Given this patient’s travel history, It’s not immediately clear why it has taken more than two weeks to diagnose and announce this patient's nCoV infection.
Coronavirus: the patient is 65 years old and was hospitalized in Douai
PARIS - The first French patient with an acute respiratory infection again close the SARS virus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is 65 and is hospitalized in Douai (North), said Wednesday the Ministry of Health.
The patient was hospitalized on April 23 in Valenciennes, Douai and then transferred to 29 April, where he is in intensive care and benefits of respite care or respiratory assistance and exchange of blood, said Jean-Yves Grall, Director General of Health at a press conference.
The man had stayed in Dubai from April 9 to 17, he said. He was hospitalized with acute respiratory disease.
