The screening of variants by RT-PCR on SARS-CoV-2 samples set up at the CHR Metz-Thionville laboratory has identified eighteen cases of patients positive for English and South African / Brazilian variants of the virus. in the last few hours.
Preventive measures have been put in place in the sectors concerned, in the hospitals of Mercy in Metz and Bel-Air in Thionville, in order to prevent the transmission of these new variants and to secure patient care.
Wider screening is now organized, in order to detect any other cases within the services concerned, as well as among contact cases.
In these circumstances, the CHR Metz-Thionville recalls that “since the start of the pandemic, all the measures intended to guarantee the safety of care and the management of patients have been implemented in the Moselle hospital structures” and that ‘It is important not to give up consulting for fear of contracting the Covid, at the risk of a delay in treatment that could lead to a loss of chance of recovery.
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