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59247 Yves Cohen, head of resuscitation at the Avicenne and Jean Verdier hospitals in the northern suburbs of Paris, told BFM TV that scientists had retested samples from 24 patients treated in December and January who tested negative for the flu. 位于巴黎北部郊区的阿维塞讷医院和让-韦迪埃医院的重症监护部门负责人伊夫·科昂对BFM电视台说，科学家复检了2019年12月和2020年1月收治的24名患者的检测样本，他们当时的流感病毒检测结果呈阴性。
59248 “Of the 24, we had one who was positive for COVID-19 on Dec 27.” he told the news channel on Sunday. 上周日（5月3日），科昂在接受电视台采访时说：“在这24名患者中，12月27日收治的一名患者新冠病毒检测结果呈阳性。”
59249 If verified, this finding would show that the virus was already circulating in Europe at that time -- well before the first known cases were diagnosed in France or hotspot Italy. 如果得到证实，这一发现将表明，新冠病毒当时已在欧洲传播——远在法国和疫情较为严重的意大利确诊首例已知病例之前。
59250 The French team looked at people admitted to the hospital with flu-like illness between December 2 and January 16 who were not ultimately diagnosed with influenza. 法国研究小组重审了在2019年12月2日至2020年1月16日期间因流感样疾病入院的患者病例，这些患者最终没有被确诊患有流感。
59251 They tested frozen samples from those patients for coronavirus. 他们对患者的冰冻样本进行了新冠病毒检测。
59252 "One sample was positive taken from a 42-year-old man born in Algeria, who lived in France for many years, and worked as a fishmonger," the team wrote. "His last trip was in Algeria during August 2019." 研究小组写道：“一份来自一名42岁男性的样本检测呈阳性，他出生在阿尔及利亚，在法国生活了多年，是一名鱼贩。他最后一次旅行是在2019年8月去了阿尔及利亚。”
59253 The samples had all initially been collected to detect flu using PCR tests, the same genetic screening process that can also be used to detect the presence of the novel coronavirus in patients infected at the time the sample is collected. 起初，医院采集这些样本是为了通过聚合酶链式反应（PCR）检测流感，同样的基因检测程序也可以用来检测患者在采样时是否感染了新冠病毒。
59254 Each sample was retested several times to ensure there were no errors, he added. 科昂补充说，每个样本都进行了多次复检，以确保没有错误。
59255 France, which has seen almost 25,000 people die from the virus since March 1, confirmed its first three COVID-19 cases on Jan 24, including two patients in Paris and another in the southwestern city of Bordeaux. 法国于2020年1月24日确诊了首批3例新冠肺炎病例，其中两名患者在巴黎，还有一名患者在西南部波尔多市。自2020年3月1日以来，法国已有近2.5万人死于新冠病毒感染。
59256 Cohen said it was too early to know if the patient whose Dec 27 test was COVID-19 positive is France’s “patient zero”. 科昂说，现在还不清楚这名2019年12月27日样本新冠病毒检测结果呈阳性的患者是否是法国的“零号病人”。