The viral situation is “worrying” in Marseille, ruled Sunday Benoît Payan, the PS mayor of the city where 7 new cases linked to the English variant of the virus causing the disease were discovered.
Posted on 01/10/2021 at 3:56 p.m.
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Since the discovery of a first case linked to this variant, to which around twenty contact cases tested positive for Covid-19 were linked, 7 of these new cases have been identified as carriers of the English strain at the origin of their disease, said Sunday the ephemeral environmental mayor of the city, now the first deputy in charge of health Michèle Rubirola.
“Now every minute counts to stem the spread of the English strain,” continued Mr. Payan: “We must react immediately, we want to get out of the usual patterns of the crisis and do everything to trace, test and isolate urgently all potential carriers of the British strain ”.
“A team of 40 marine firefighters was mobilized yesterday (Saturday) evening” and this morning “our teams went to test five first addresses, surface tests were carried out”, added the elected official.
One of these buildings “revealed traces of Covid in the environment. As a precaution, we performed tests on the 30 residents of the building. The results are underway but two people from the building are positive for Covid-19 and have been invited to isolate themselves, ”he continued, ensuring that the response of the city and the marine firefighters to the crisis was “unprecedented in France”.
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