Group evacuated from China to France test negative for coronavirus

Tests for coronavirus on about 20 people who arrived on France on an evacuation flight from China have come back negative, authorities said Monday.

A total of 254 people arrived in France on Sunday from Chinese city of Wuhan, where dely virus was first detected, on second such flight. Thirty-six of those on board displayed symptoms of coronavirus, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Sunday. Sixteen of those were flown back to ir respective countries, but about 20 stayed at Istres airport in south of France to undergo furr testing. y included French and n-European nationals.

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"All se tests were negative and so all se persons were able to go to (two) centres" in south of France where y will remain in quarantine for 14 days, junior health minister rien Taquet told BFMTV Monday.

Tests were conducted on "persons, who when y boarded plane, h some symptoms", which are similar to those for a cold, and "h to be checked when plane landed," said Taquet. second evacuation flight carried people of 30 different nationalities, most of m from Europe. Sixty-five were French. first planelo of evacuees from China arrived in France on Friday and are in quarantine at a resort on Mediterranean coast.

Two passengers from that flight were identified as possibly infected with coronavirus, but tests on m also came back negative. Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye told France 2 television Monday that re are more French citizens who have requested to be repatriated from China. More than 17,200 people in China have been infected with virus, which has spre to about 20 countries. re have been more than 360 deaths in China.

So far in France, six cases of coronavirus have been detected. France and its fellow G7 countries will be discussing a joint response to coronavirus epidemic, Germany's health minister said on Sunday.

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