24 January 2020 (4 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Confirmed cases
6,633
Recovered
12
Deaths
148
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in Europe and France was confirmed in Bordeaux. It involved a 48-year-old French citizen who arrived in France from China. Two more cases were confirmed by the end of the day; all of the individuals recently returned from China.[1]
A Chinese tourist was admitted to a hospital in Paris on 28 January and died on 14 February, marking the first death from COVID-19 in Europe and France.[2][3]
As of 16 March 2020[update], there have been 6 633 confirmed cases, 148 deaths and at least 12 recoveries in France.[4]
On 12 March, president of France Emmanuel Macron announced on public television that all schools and all universities would close from Monday 16 March until further notice.
The next day, the prime minister Édouard Philippe banned gatherings of more than 100 people, not including public transportation. The following day, the prime minister ordered the closure of all nonessential public places, including restaurants, cafés, cinemas, and discothèques, effective at midnight.[5]
As of 14 March, all but 2 departments have reported at least 1 case of COVID-19.[6]
On 16 March, President Macron announced a country wide lockdown for 15 days starting 17 March midday.[7]
^A new laboratory transmits data since May 4, retrospectively from March 16. The new number of cases in the last 24 hours takes this into account.
^The increase in cases compared to data of the previous day is an aggregation of additional data from 13th May, previously not taken into account.
^ abSome positive patients were counted twice, this is no longer the case, therefore the decrease in cases compared to data of the previous day.
^Some discrepancy has been found in the aggregation report. Public authorities are working towards resolving this anomaly. However, as per the common usage, figures reported for that day in Wikipedia are strictly the figures shown in the daily report of the public authorities.
^This percentage reflects previously unreported data from preceding days as well as data of the current day.
First confirmed cases
On 24 January, the first COVID-19 case in France — and Europe — was confirmed in Bordeaux. A 48-year-old French citizen from China, who arrived in France on 22 January, was hospitalised at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux. Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente took charge and the patient was isolated in the hospital. The authorities tried to confirm whether he had infected people who were in contact with him.[9]
Two more cases were confirmed in Paris by the end of the day, both of them recently returned from China.[1][10][11] A 31-year-old man and his 30-year-old partner, both from Wuhan, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and were hospitalised at Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital. They arrived in France on 18 January.
On 28 January, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist from the Hubei Province tested positive and was hospitalised at Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris.[2]
On 29 January, his 50-year-old daughter tested positive as well and was admitted to the same hospital where her father was treated.[12]
On 30 January, a doctor was confirmed positive for COVID-19 in Paris. He came into contact with a Chinese tourist whose contamination was confirmed when she returned to China.[13]
On 14 February, the 80-year-old Chinese tourist died in Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital, marking the first death from COVID-19 in Europe and France.[3]
From 31 January to 9 February, nearly 550 people were repatriated from Wuhan on a series of evacuation flights arriving at Creil Air Base in Oise and Istres-Le Tubé Air Base in Istres.[14]
Chinese tourist. Daughter of the fourth infected. It is not clear if she had the virus in China or contracted it from her father. Out of hospital at the start of the third week of February.
Another British national tested positive for COVID-19. He stayed in the same chalet as the five other individual who contracted the infection at Les Contamines-Montjoie.[26]
On 18 February, the new Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced that only four people remained infected in France. These four, all British nationals, underwent quarantine at the hospital, three from the first group of Les Contamines-Montjoie and a fourth case which was discovered later.[22]
Six days later, the last remaining British national was discharged.[27]
Contaminated by another British tourist who is back to UK and diagnosed as the fourth infected in this country. Out of hospital at the start of the end week in February.
Contaminated by another British tourist who is back to UK and diagnosed as the fourth infected in this country. Out of hospital at the start of the third week in February.
Person who stayed with other infected British citizens. He was diagnosed with the virus during the incubation period some days later he spent in quarantine. Discharged on 24 February.
On 25 February, a Chinese man who had returned from China was confirmed as a carrier of SARS-CoV-2, but showed signs of recent recovery. A 64-year-old man from La Balme-de-Sillingy, who returned from a trip to Lombardy on 15 February, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and was treated in Centre Hospitalier Annecy-Genevois, Épagny-Metz-Tessy.[32][33][34] His wife also tested positive and was admitted to the same hospital as her husband.[35][36]
On 26 February, a 36-year-old man, who had made multiple trips to Lombardy, tested positive and was treated in Nouvel Hôspital Civil, Strasbourg.[37][38][39][40] A 60-year-old French teacher from Oise was first admitted to Creil Hospital, then transferred to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, when he died a few hours later.[41][40][42] A 55-year-old man from Oise was admitted to the intensive care unit at CHU Amiens-Picardie, Amiens.[43]
On 27 February, the Minister of HealthOlivier Véran announced that France had 38 cases of COVID-19 on its soil, with 20 new cases detected including a cluster in the Oise caused by close contacts with patients and contamination in Egypt.[44]
On 28 February, one new case was confirmed, a 23-year-old fashion student from Nice who had recently returned from Milan.[45]Landes confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the region, a woman who tested positive at Centre Hospitalier de Mont-de-Marsan and underwent isolation.[46]
By region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
On 25 February, a man from La Balme-de-Sillingy, who had returned from Italy, was declared infected and hospitalised in Annecy. He had been asymptomatic the previous evening, and so was the trigger for a cluster in Haute-Savoie.[47][48] One day later his wife was hospitalised.[49] On 27 February, a friend and his daughter followed him into the hospital[50] On 2 March, 26 people were COVID-19 positive in Haute-Savoie. The hospital in Annecy being saturated, a case was transferred to Chambéry.[51] François Daviet, the mayor of La Balme-de-Sillingy was also hospitalised.[52]
On 27 February, a man from Francheville was admitted to a Lyon hospital and tested positive for coronavirus.[53] Three new cases were reported in the city of Lyon on 1 March.[52]
A couple from Divonne-les-Bains were infected after a journey in Italy and hospitalised in neighbouring Switzerland on 29 February.[54][55] On the same day, two others men from Ferney-Voltaire, one French national who works in Switzerland and one Italian national, were also hospitalised in the Helvetic Country.[56]
On 2 March, 10 cases were reported at the Dijon hospital.[59] The first wave was reported on 27 February with cases related to the Oise cluster[60][61] who subsequently infected their relatives. Five new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on 3 March. The 15 cases in the region received care at Dijon CHU. Four cases in Côte-d'Or had been in contact with someone who was already hospitalised, while another case in Saône-et-Loire was in Italy the previous week.[62]
Brittany
On 2 March, 19 cases were reported in Brittany.[63] Two were in the western city of Brest, an elderly person from Plougonvelin, returning from a trip from Egypt[64][65] and his wife.[66] There were also four cases in the capital of the region Rennes, a firefighter and his wife, and two cases imported from Veneto.[63] 13 others cases were reported in the Morbihan, around a cluster (6 in Crac'h, 3 in Auray, 3 in Carnac and 1 in Saint-Philibert.[63]
The fourth death of the country, and the first one in Brittany was registered, a 92-year-old man, hospitalised in Vannes.[67][68]
On 26 February, a 36-year-old man who had made repeated trips to the Italian region of Lombardy was hospitalised in Strasbourg but didn't have any severe symptoms.[41][39]
On 2 March, it was announced that 10 more people tested positive in the Great East, 8 hospitalised in Strasbourg and 3 in Nancy. In Alsace, a Molsheim couple was hospitalised. The man had returned from Italy and was hospitalised first, followed by his wife. Four members of a family from Hésingue, a 27-year-old mother and her two children aged five and one, as well as one of the grandfathers, a 57-year-old man, were infected. Two others cases identified in the Bas-Rhin, a 49-year-old man and his 14-year-old son, had been in contact with a person from the Oise hospitalised in Amiens.[71] Three family members were hospitalised in Nancy, a father and his son, aged 50 and 23, and the girl-friend of the 50-year-old patient, all from the department of Aisne.[72]
As of 2 March, 67 people[73] were infected by COVID-19 in the Hauts-de-France region. This figure, the highest in France, was linked to a major cluster originating in the city of Creil, in the Oise, whose source remains unknown. The five departments of Hauts-de-France now each had at least one proven case of people infected by the coronavirus. In Aisne and Pas-de-Calais, spared the epidemic until 1st March, the authorities confirmed the presence of patients with COVID-19, except the Nord where hospitalisations without local contamination had taken place.
Some days before, on 26 February, a man died overnight after being rushed to a Paris hospital from Creil where he was hospitalised for 6 days in ICU in serious condition, bringing the total death toll in the country to two at that time.[41][40] On March 2, it was announced the second death in Hauts-de-France and the third at the national level, a woman of 89 "diagnosed post-mortem" at the hospital of Compiègne. She had other serious pre-existing conditions.[73]
Île-de-France
On 25 February, a young woman returned from China was hospitalised in the Hôpital Bichat, Paris but showed signs of recovery and was out of hospital on 26 February.[47][74][30]
On 28 February, an infected person from the Val-d'Oise, returning from Italy was hospitalised in Hôpital Bichat, Paris. He was working for an exterior employee of Charles de Gaulle Airport.[75][76] On the same day, Hôpital Tenon, which had received a patient from the Oise before he had been diagnosed, announced that it had been directly affected by the coronavirus with three contaminated medical personnel.[77]
Two cases of Coronavirus had been identified in Seine-Saint-Denis in Montreuil in the same family, a father and his child, on 2 March.[78]
On 27 February, a doctor from the Rouen University Hospital was declared a positive carrier of COVID-19 and was confined to his home, after a professional journey to Munich.[79] A second case of Coronavirus was confirmed in Normandy on 2 March. He is a French resident in Eure. He was hospitalised at the Rouen University Hospital.[80]
New Aquitaine
After news of the first contaminated individuals on European soil had been released during the first wave of coronavirus in France,[15] three new patients were declared COVID-19 positive in February 2020, a patient in Bordeaux, hospitalised at the Bordeaux University Hospital, returned from a stay in Italy in a city affected by coronavirus, a soldier from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, who has had contacts with people from the Creil air base in the Oise, hospitalised in Poitiers, and a woman from Mont-de-Marsan was also in contact with grouped cases in Creil, hospitalised in Bordeaux.[81]
Occitania
Three cases were declared in Occitania in February. First, a man who was back from Italy was diagnosed on 27 February,[82] followed by his wife one day later[83] and a 41-year-old man who was recently in Emilia-Romagna. These cases were reported in the city of Montpellier. On 1st March, it was announced that the two children of the couple were hospitalised, but only one was COVID-19 positive.[84]
On 2nd March, two new cases were announced in Montpellier, a 31-year-old man and his 29-year-old wife, also back from Emilia-Romagna, bringing the total number to 6 cases.[85] One day later, a new case was announced, a 70-year-old man who lives in the village of Boisset-et-Gaujac, in the Gard. He was hospitalised in Nîmes.[86]
Pays de la Loire
A 58-year-old woman, a general practitioner, tested positive for coronavirus and was hospitalised on February 27 at the Nantes University Hospital. This was the first confirmed case in the Pays de la Loire region. She lives near Compiègne, in the Oise department, where a dozen cases have already been identified. She received a consultation on 13 February with a patient who has since been hospitalised in Amiens in the intensive care unit.[87][88]
On 2nd March, four people were hospitalised at the Angers University Hospital for cases of coronavirus.[89] The first case was detected on 28 February; a 27-year-old woman from the Sarthe declared herself to the SAMU centre 15 after a stay in Milan in Italy. Three other cases have since been detected in Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire. They were contaminated via contact with a patient from Brest.[90]
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
The first case of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region was announced on 28 February. A young woman from Cannes was infected after a journey in Milan.[91] One day later three new cases were hospitalised, two French vacationers returned from a risk zone and an Italian tourist.[92] Two new cases appeared during the weekend of 29 February and 1 March: a 15-year-old adolescent and a 23-year-old woman.[93] On 2 March, a seventh case was announced, a 3-year-old girl.[93]
On 29 February 2020, Monaco announced its first COVID-19 case, a man who was admitted to the Princess Grace Hospital Centre, then transferred to the Nice University Hospital in France.[94][95]
A resident of the French island of Saint Barthélemy was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 1 March. His parents on the neighbouring island of Saint Martin also tested positive.[96]
A couple from the French part of Saint Martin island was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 1 March. Their son, who lives on the neighbouring island of Saint Barthélemy, also tested positive.[96]
On 28 February, the fashion designer agnès b. (not to be confused with Agnès Buzyn) cancelled fashion shows in Paris Fashion Week which was scheduled to run until 3 March.[97] The following day, the Paris half marathon scheduled for Sunday 1 March with 44,000 participants was cancelled as one of a number of measures announced by health minister Olivier Véran.[98]
On 29 February 2020, Monaco announced the first COVID-19 case, a man who was admitted at the Princess Grace Hospital Centre, then transferred to Nice University Hospital in France.[94][95] On the other side, three French nationals and one Italian resident from the department of Ain were diagnosed positive and hospitalised in Lausanne or other places in Switzerland.[100]
Statistics
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Source: ARS / Santé Publique France / Ministère des Solidarités/Santé
Simulation
Simulations helped the president to plan measures, helping make clear that without any measure numerous people will be killed.
In such a case between 30000 and 100000 Intensive Care Unit (ICU; French: 'unités soins intensifs') beds would be required in the hospitals. In France there are 5,000 réanimation beds and 7,364 ICU beds.
This simulation was provided by Neil Ferguson, epidemiologist in the Imperial College in London.[116]
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