PARIS (Reuters) – Five British nationals including a child have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus at a French mountain village and health officials said they were trying to determine who else the group came into contact with, including at local schools.
A view of the house where five British nationals including a child, who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus after staying in the same ski chalet with a person who had been in Singapore, were staying at the French Alpine resort of Les Contamines-Montjoie, France February 8, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
In total a group of 11 people, including the five who have tested positive, have been hospitalized and are being examined, after sharing lodgings in late January with a British man believed to have contracted the virus in Singapore, the health ministry said.
The group was spread over two apartments in a chalet in the Alpine village of Contamines-Montjoie, which is also ski resort.
Authorities said that three of the 11 were children – including the one who has tested positive for the virus – and had spent time in a school in the village, where they were residents.
That school and another in the area that provided French lessons would