A group of university students were detected in Belgium with a confirmed infection of the Indian variant of the virus. They flew back to Belgium from India before arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport and then took a bus back to Belgium as a group; they are known to have been vaccinated. According to the Parisian newspaper on Thursday night, the students were tested negative for the new crown before their flight and upon arrival at the Paris airport. Experts speculate that it is possible that they were infected on the transfer bus between Paris airport and Belgium.
French infectious disease expert Karine Lacombe said on Wednesday that the Indian variant of the virus that has led to the epidemic crisis in India is “most likely already present in France”. The expert may not be mistaken: the students who arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport from India and passed through Paris in the past few weeks tested positive for the new coronavirus, and a total of 20 Indian university students tested positive for the new virus, the Parisian newspaper said. They are currently under mandatory home quarantine against the virus in Alost and Louvain, Flanders, Belgium.
According to several experts, they may have been infected by a Virus Superinfector, who may have been one of their group, and they may have been infected on the bus that drove back to Belgium from the Paris area. Andre, a microbiologist at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, tweeted that the university students began to observe strict quarantine measures as soon as they arrived in Belgium. Now, between 20 and 30 university students have been diagnosed with the Indian variant of the virus.
Van Ranst, another Belgian virus expert who has shone since the outbreak of this epidemic crisis, explained to a Flemish radio station that the student group arrived at Paris’ Huarcy airport on April 12, and five days later, several students became ill with symptoms of the virus infection. A super-infected person with the virus infected them in a bus, and five days later, on the 17th, they became sick.
However, the students were vaccinated. The mayor of Luverne, Le Tuan Ngai, also said that the police are now strictly guarding them and no one is allowed to leave the quarantine residence. Our crisis team is also close by to assist the students.
According to the Belgian viral expert, Lancaster, the students have been vaccinated with the Indian vaccine and the AstraZeneca vaccine (AZ), but it does not seem to have fully protected them from infection and new coronary diseases.
The Belgian media that broke the news did not reveal the route the students took in France. Belgian French-language radio (RTBF) noted that the bus driver had been tested for the virus and came up negative. We don’t know if the students had contact with anyone else after they arrived in France. They had been tested in their home country for Neovirus PCR before taking the flight. Then, upon arrival at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, a rapid test for the virus was done again.
The Indian variant of the virus has led to an unprecedented crisis in India since the outbreak began, with an average of 200,000 new infections per day. This variant of the virus is the result of several mutations of the new strain 19 coronavirus, showing that it is also more infectious than other variants of the virus, but it is still not known whether it is more dangerous or more lethal. France has made it mandatory for all travelers from India to be quarantined from Saturday. French public health unit this Thursday, from its epidemiological point of view, pointed out that in the French city has not detected cases of Indian virus infection.
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