Five Britons contract coronavirus in French ski resort after contact with man who had been in Singapore
- Four adults and a child test positive, bringing total number of patients in country to 11
- Two schools in area temporarily closed, health official says
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.
In total a group of 11 people, including the five who have tested positive, have been hospitalised 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 be temporarily closed next week, regional health official Jean-Yves Grall said.