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The British nationals were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with a person who had been in Singapore.
Five Britons staying in a chalet at a French ski resort have been diagnosed with coronavirus, the country’s health minister has said.
Agnes Buzyn said the Britons, including a nine-year-old child, were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with a person who had been in Singapore.
All five had been staying at Les Contamines-Montjoie in the mountainous region of Savoie in eastern France.
They were taken to hospital in the region overnight and are not in a serious condition.
It takes the total number of cases in France to 11.
Ms Buzyn said the group of newly-infected individuals formed “a cluster, a grouping around one original case.”
“That original case was brought to our attention last night, it is a British national who had returned from Singapore where he had stayed between 20 and 23 January, and he arrived in France on 24 January for four days.”
Two apartments in the ski chalet were being examined, a health official said.
French authorities will temporarily close two schools in the area near the ski resort where the Britons contracted the virus, a health official said.
It was earlier reported that only one Briton was among the five new cases.
The global death toll from the ongoing outbreak has reached 724, priming the illness to become more deadly than SARS.
Another 81 fatalities have been recorded in Hubei province in China, where Wuhan – the sprawling city where the infection was first reported after Christmas – is located.
The number of new infections rose on Friday from a day earlier, Chinese health officials said, reversing two days of declines and showing the difficulty of predicting the epidemic’s peak.
Japan also confirmed its first national to die from the virus, a man taken to hospital with pneumonia in Wuhan, putting the global death toll just 49 behind the 774 fatalities recorded during the SARS epidemic of 2002-2003.
The US has confirmed its first death from the virus, a 60-year old US citizen who died at Jinyintan Hospital Wuhan – the epicentre of the outbreak.
The UAE also says it has seven cases of the disease.
Courtesy of Sky News
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