STORY: Residents and local business owners in a French ski resort where five coronavirus cases have been confirmed say they are concerned about the lack of information coming from authorities. Five British nationals including a child have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Contamines-Montjoie and health officials said they were trying to determine who else the group came into contact with, including at local schools.
Local resident Beatrice Louvier is the mother of a 10-year old gild who was in the same classroom with a British child who got the coronavirus.
She said parents need more updates on this issue to reassure their children, who might feel anxious about contacting the disease.
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, 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.
Local resident Catherine Davout, who rents out flats to tourists, said some of her clients had already cancelled their bookings, following the news of the five coronavirus cases.
(Production: Marina Depetris, Liliana Ciobanu, Jim Hatley)
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