5th suspected case (symptoms), Daugther of 4th case. 4th case nCov was not identified on admission, possible super-spread

[Jonathan Fillion]

https://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/coronavirus-le-quatrieme-patient-en-france-navait-dabord-pas-ete-repere_108499/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1sOI9HtWvRIhOy9wCBBO670hyR5RSJXO4uEydLlAhP-U5CYWkBvfzSjrE#Echobox=1580319121

The fourth patient hospitalized in France after being infected with the new coronavirus, an 80-year-old Chinese man, had not initially been spotted because he did not meet the criteria, his doctor said on Wednesday. "His condition is serious (...) we will do everything we can but it is severe," said Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of the infectious diseases department at Bichat hospital in Paris. The patient is in intensive care and is on "artificial ventilation". Arrived in France "on January 23", he first consulted the emergency room of the European hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris on the 25. "He had a fever but no cough or respiratory signs, he was not from Wuhan but from a town 400 km to the north: it was far from the criteria and was not retained as a possible case ”of infection.

"It was only yesterday, when he developed and worsened a respiratory condition, that there was again a request for classification and the classification was retained because he had respiratory signs." The test is then found to be positive. Her 50-year-old daughter also developed symptoms. A test is underway to find out if she is infected. Health officials are now working to find out if the patient may have infected others in the emergency room. A crisis meeting was organized on Wednesday and made it possible to identify all the staff who were in contact with the patient. "We have been able to identify a certain number of people and we will follow all that is recommended to try to monitor them," he added. None "is currently symptomatic, there are few patients who have been identified with a major risk, significant exposure". This kind of case could lead to a modification of the identification criteria set by the world health authorities, and in particular an enlargement of the Chinese zone considered at risk.