The first patient with Covid-19 in France appeared at the end of December, a month before the first case was confirmed, according to an intensive care chief.
The novel coronavirus first appeared in France on 27 December 2019, Yves Cohen, an intensive care chief from Avicenne Hospital in Paris, said in an interview with local media BFMTV on Sunday.
He said his medical team revisited test results of 24 patients with respiratory infections and tested negative for flu and other kinds of coronavirus in December and January, among them a male patient showed positive for Covid-19.
The patient was tested in hospital on 27 December, a month before the first French cases were confirmed, Dr Cohen said, adding that the test had been repeated several