２０２０年１２月２６日（Sat.） 変異型がフランスでも検知されたようです。（ニュースソース： DWーDE １２月２６日発 ）
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Coronavirus digest: Mutated COVID variant reaches France
French authorities have identified the first known case of the highly infectious coronavirus variant on French soil. The man who brought it to the country shows no symptoms. Keep up to date with DW.
Health authorities confirmed the first case of the new variant of coronavirus in France
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France confirmed its first case of a new coronavirus variant that was recently identified in the UK, the French health ministry said in a statement. Experts believe the mutated version of the virus is around 70% more contagious.
The identification of this new variant, known as VOC-202012/01, prompted more than 50 countries to impose restrictions on travel to the UK.
The infected man arrived in France from London on December 19. He is asymptomatic and isolating at home in the central city of Tours.
Authorities are tracing the person's contacts.
In addition to the first case, laboratories are analyzing tests from several other people who may have the new variant, the statement said.
France has recently imposed a blockade on people traveling from the UK in a bid to limit the spread. Although the officials lifted the snap measure after two days, the move stranded thousands of drivers in Dover.
Some limits on travel Between the UK and France remain in place in a bid to stop the new variant from spreading.
Elsewhere in Europe
In Germany, the country's Association of Cities told people to lower expectations for the coronavirus vaccine in the short term — a day before Germany's vaccination scheme is due to begin.
"It's a start, but the specter of the dangerous coronavirus isn't gone just yet," the association's president, Burkhard Jung, told the Funke Media Group in an interview.
He added that mass vaccination was not yet feasible because there was "too little vaccine for that right now."
On Saturday, Germany recorded another 14,455 coronavirus cases and the death toll rose by 240 to 29,422.
The first 9,750 vaccine doses have arrived in Greece. They were transported into Greece across the Bulgarian border in the north. A video showed the van carrying them escorted by six police cars.
Vaccinations will begin at five Athens hospitals on Sunday. Health personnel and elderly residents of nursing homes are first in line to be vaccinated.
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日本では、早くも5例が検出されています。これらが水際で制御されていて欲しいと願うところですが、感染力が７割ほど強いとされていますし、“上手の手から水が漏れる“例えがあるように、侵入の懸念は尽きません。
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ところでクリスマスの夜の街での人出は、一様に減少とはならなかったようです。逆に増加を示した場所も少なくないと報じられています。一体、こうした人々の良識を疑います。彼らは、自分たちさえ良ければそれでイイと考える自己中心的か、または、言いたくありませんが“バカ“です。
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追加： たった今、速報が流れました。本日の東京の感染者が949人の最多値を出しています。これでも緊急事態宣言を出さないのでしょうか、PMは。実に遅すぎます！ PMの責任を問います。都知事の無策も。
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