COVID-19 First Appeared In France In December
May 3, 2020 / /
According to CGTN, The novel coronavirus first appeared in France on December 27, 2019, said Yves Cohen, an intensive care chief of a hospital in Paris, in an interview with local media on Sunday.
Professor Yves Cohen affirms that a patient had Covid-19 in France from December 27
He told BFM TV that his medical team revisited test results of 24 patients with respiratory infections who tested negative for flu and other kinds of coronavirus in December and January, among them a male patient who showed positive for COVID-19.
The patients, he added, were tested in hospital on December 27, a month before the first French cases were confirmed.