Flights from South Africa and six other Southern African countries have been suspended until December 4th. The passenger test device of the regional flights “will be reinforced by antigenic tests”.
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After confirmation of a first case Tuesday, November 30, anxiety is growing at the meeting. The island apprehend to know if other inhabitants carry this new Variant of SARS-COV-2 recently reported in South Africa, neighboring countries whose ribs are about 3,400 kilometers away. The result of sequencing performed on another suspect case has proved negative. A third case, which has no connection with the first two, has been tested positive at COVID-19 but could not be sequenced due to too small quantity of viruses. Dozens of new samples arrived Wednesday 1 Er are ongoing sequencing for routine analyzes.
This first positive French patient at the Omicron Variant is a 53-year-old man returned home, at the meeting, November 20 from Mauritius. Party of Maputo, Mozambique, he had done on his journey a stopover in Johannesburg, South Africa. During his visit to Mauritius, the businessman had undergone a mandatory antigenic test that proved negative.
When he arrived at the meeting, he had to submit to an RT-PCR test, like all travelers from a country in the Indian Ocean area, also negative. But two days later, the quinquagnary, caught fever and muscle pain, has been tested positive. Because he had stayed in a country at risk, a sequencing was ordered urgently in Sunday’s day.
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Hospitalization that is not necessary, the patient was “isolated at his home and is regularly monitored,” said the Prefecture and the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of the meeting. “Risk contact cases have also been identified and isolation”, they indicated. Samples on his near entourage were made.
Director of the Pimit Research Unit in Cyclotron Indian Ocean Meeting (University of Reunion / CNRS / Inserm / IRD), who identified the Omicron Variant at the meeting, Dr. Patrick Mavingui doubt “that he is not There is only one case in the island “. “If we discovered a first case, it can only be excluded that this variant has already been introduced and circulates,” he says to the world. For this microbiologist and epidemiologist, “do not panic, but worry by continuing to take precautions. For the moment, there was no explosion from the number of hospitalizations and serious cases in Africa South. “
Without Panic, the prefecture of the meeting reacted quickly and decided to reduce the number of travelers arriving on the island by strengthening controls. Since November 27, flights from South Africa and six other Southern African countries have been suspended until Saturday, December 4, announced the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune. The systematic system of the passengers of the regional flights (mainly from Mauritius, Madagascar, Mayotte, Comoros and Seychelles) “will be reinforced by antigenic tests to obtain an immediate result and isolate positive cases”. Mauritius was classified on November 30 in “red zone” on the list of countries characterized by a particularly active circulation of the CVIV-19 epidemic.
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