After the discovery of a case of infection with the coronavirus at the central police station of Lille Sunday, two other people have been identified as carriers of the virus.
This is the entire staff of the central police station that will be detected from this Wednesday and for three days. The regional Agency of health (ARS) of the Hauts-de-France is organising a mass screening after the discovery of three cases positive to the new coronavirus.
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The first was detected last Sunday. It is an agent of the commissioner. “The contact tracing implemented within the framework of the health strategy ‘test-trace-isolate’, was then used to identify the same day the two positive cases, additional,” explained the Northern prefecture, in a statement, relayed by LCI. They were placed in quatorzaine, as well as all “contact persons” identified.
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“Covid-19”, the new coronavirus
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The ARS, in charge of detecting and identifying potential new clusters will therefore test almost half of the more than 2000 police officers in the metropolis. “Nearly a thousand civil servants are affected by this screening, which will take place in the premises of the office” and “will be carried out by a team made up of health professionals of the university hospital of Lille and nurses liberals,” said the release. “All the personal positive and close contacts will need to adhere to isolation measures”, adds the prefecture.
