France finds first case of new coronavirus variant
France features confirmed the first case in the country of the even more contagious coronavirus variant recently recognized in the UK.
The French health ministry said the individual was a French citizen in the central town of Tours who possessed arrived from London on 19 December.
The ministry said he was asymptomatic, and currently self-isolating at home.
The appearance of the new coronavirus variant in England triggered travel curbs with a large number of countries.
France closed it is border but ended it has the ban on Wednesday, providing persons tested negative before visiting. Thousands of lorry motorists spent Christmas Day in their cabs in Kent waiting around to cross the English Channel.
It was confirmed after the guy was tested in medical center on 21 December, medical ministry said.
The infected person, a French national moving into the UK, was feeling alright, it added without providing further facts.
Other countries also have reported cases of the new variant: on Friday, Japan verified five infections on passengers who had all arrived from the UK, while cases on Denmark, Australia and holland were reported earlier.
The other day, France lifted its countrywide lockdown, but the government said the infection rate had not fallen sufficiently for an additional easing.
This means theatres and cinemas remain shut as do bars and restaurants. A nationwide curfew can be powerful from 20:00 to 06:00. The curfew was lifted for Holiday Eve - but will remain for New Year's Eve.
France has reported more than 2.5 million confirmed Covid attacks since the start of outbreak, with an increase of than 62,000 deaths.
