New research suggests Covid-19 presence in France in November 2019

Image Source : AP New research suggests Covid-19 presence in France in November 2019
A research on serum samples of over 9,000 French adults has recommended that the novel coronavirus may need been current within the nation as early as November 2019, as some sampled between that month and January 2020 examined optimistic for antibodies in opposition to the virus.
The analysis, led by Fabrice Carrat, director of the Paris-based Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, was revealed within the European Journal of Epidemiology on February 6, experiences Xinhua information company.
All 9,144 serum samples have been collected between November 4, 2019, and March 16, 2020, from individuals residing within the 12 mainland French areas. Their common age is 55 and 51 per cent of them are feminine, mentioned the report.
“We identified 353 participants with a positive anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG test,” and “neutralizing antibodies were detected in 44 participants”, it mentioned.
Strikingly, 13 individuals with optimistic IgG and neutralising anti-bodies have been sampled between November 5, 2019, and January 30, 2020, seven of whom had their serum pattern collected in November 2019.

Researchers imagine that this research suggests Covid-19 presence in France as early as November 2019.
On May 7, 2020, Albert Schweitzer hospital in Colmar, East France, introduced in a press release that their radiologists reviewed 2,456 chest scans carried out between November 1, 2019 and April 30, 2020, with outcomes exhibiting that the primary suspected case dated again to November 16, 2019.
On May 3, 2020, Yves Cohen, head of the intensive care models of two hospitals affiliated to AP-HP, advised the media that the hospitals re-examined samples taken from 24 pneumonia sufferers between December 2019 and January 2020.
Results confirmed {that a} man, who was admitted to hospital on December 27, 2019 and now in good well being, examined optimistic for Covid-19.
One of the hardest-hit international locations in Europe, France has up to now registered a complete of three,465,951 coronavirus instances, with 80,951 deaths.
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