France has confirmed the first case in the country of the more contagious coronavirus variant recently identified in the UK, according to the BBC.
The French health ministry said the person was a French national in the central town of Tours who had arrived from London on 19 December.
It was confirmed after the man was tested in hospital on 21 December, the health ministry said.
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The infected person, a French citizen living in the UK, was feeling alright, it added without providing further details.
The ministry said he was asymptomatic, and currently self-isolating at home.
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