Italy reported on Friday the first case of the new coronavirus detected on its territory. According to the latest Oms bulletin, this virus close to SARS has already caused 30 deaths worldwide.
France, Great Britain, Germany, and now Italy, the list of European countries affected by the new coronavirus, close to SARS is growing! In addition, with the announcement of new deaths this week, the World Health Organization is revising its figures upwards in its latest report on this virus now called Mers-NCoV.
Indeed, the Italian health authorities reported on Friday May 31 of a first case of an infected patient. This is a 45-year-old man who has returned from a trip to Jordan. In a statement, the Italian Ministry of Health clarified, “the patient was admitted to a Tuscan hospital with a high fever, cough and breathing difficulties. He is currently in satisfactory condition and is under solitary confinement. He is an Italian resident of foreign nationality, who recently spent 40 days in Jordan where one of his sons has the flu “. After the announcement this week of the death of the first French patient to be infected with the virus, this new contamination in Italy is unlikely to be reassuring. But Europe is not the only one worried because Tunisia has also recently been affected by the virus, with several cases detected inside the country.
However, the Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine always wanted to be reassuring Tuesday by indicating on BFM-TV, “The French situation has not changed epidemiologically, there are no new cases in the territory”.
Finally, after the recording of three new deaths in Saudi Arabia on Friday, the latest Mers-NCoV report issued by the WHO now counts 30 deaths and 50 confirmed cases of contamination worldwide. The Organization also indicates again, “do not know the source of this virus”.
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