Editing Module:COVID-19 pandemic in France (section)

==Situation by region==

=== Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ===
On 25 February 2020, a man from [[La Balme-de-Sillingy]], who had returned from Italy, was declared infected and hospitalised in [[Annecy]]. He had been asymptomatic the previous evening, and so was the trigger for a cluster in [[Haute-Savoie]].<ref name="ladepeche-2020" /><ref name="AutoQ7-25"/> One day later his wife was hospitalised.<ref name="francetvinfo3841703" /> On 27 February, a friend and his daughter followed him into the hospital.<ref name="ledauphine-2020"/> On 2 March 2020, 26 people were COVID-19 positive in Haute-Savoie. The hospital in Annecy being saturated, a case was transferred to [[Chambéry]].<ref name="francetvinfo1794071"/> François Daviet, the mayor of [[La Balme-de-Sillingy]] was also hospitalised.<ref name="Faure-2020"/>

On 27 February 2020, a man from [[Francheville, Rhône|Francheville]] was admitted to a Lyon hospital and tested positive for coronavirus.<ref name="BFMTV-2020"/> Three new cases were reported in the city of [[Lyon]] on 1 March.<ref name="Faure-2020" />

A couple from [[Divonne-les-Bains]] were infected after a journey in Italy and hospitalised in neighbouring Switzerland on 29 February 2020.<ref name="AutoQ7-26"/><ref name="AutoQ7-27"/> On the same day, two other men from [[Ferney-Voltaire]], one French national who works in Switzerland and one Italian national, were also hospitalised in the Helvetic Country.<ref name="francetvinfo1793341"/>

On 2 March 2020, an 89-year-old woman from [[Nyons]] was treated at [[Valréas]] hospital in the [[Canton of Valréas|Enclave of the Popes]] in Vaucluse and tested COVID-19 positive.<ref name="France Bleu-2020b"/> On the same day there were four new cases in [[Haute-Savoie]].<ref name="francetvinfo1794453"/>

=== Burgundy-Franche-Comté ===
On 2 March 2020, 10 cases were reported at the [[Dijon]] hospital.<ref name="AutoQ7-28"/> The first wave was reported on 27 February with cases related to the Oise cluster<ref name="bienpublic-2020"/><ref name="infos-dijon-2020"/> who subsequently infected their relatives. Five new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on 3 March. The 15 cases in the region received care at Dijon CHU. Four cases in [[Côte-d'Or]] had been in contact with someone who was already hospitalised, while another case in [[Saône-et-Loire]] was in Italy the previous week.<ref name="France-2020"/>

=== Brittany ===
On 2 March 2020, 19 cases were reported in [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]].<ref name="France 3 Bretagne-2020"/> Two were in the western city of [[Brest, France|Brest]], an elderly man from [[Plougonvelin]], returning from a trip from Egypt<ref name="letelegramme12513463"/><ref name="PAISTEL-2020"/> and his wife.<ref name="letelegramme12485342"/> There were also four cases in the regional capital [[Rennes]], a firefighter and his wife, and two people who had returned from [[Veneto]].<ref name="France 3 Bretagne-2020" /> 13 others cases were reported in [[Morbihan]], around a cluster of 6 in [[Crac'h]], 3 in [[Auray]], 3 in [[Carnac]] and 1 in [[Saint-Philibert, Morbihan|Saint-Philibert]].<ref name="France 3 Bretagne-2020" />

Also on 2 March 2020, the fourth death in France, and the first one in [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]] occurred, a 92-year-old man, who had been hospitalised in [[Vannes]].<ref name="letelegramme12515408"/><ref name="francetvinfo1794551"/>

As of 29 March 2020, 962 cases had been reported as follows : 208 in [[Ille-et-Vilaine]], 230 in [[Finistère]], 313 in [[Morbihan]] and 107 in [[Côtes d'Armor]].<ref name="20200309fr/system/files/2020-03/2020-03-09%20bulletin%20information%20COVID-19%20%28002%29"/>

=== Grand Est ===
On 26 February 2020, a 36-year-old man who had made repeated trips to the Italian region of Lombardy was hospitalised in [[Strasbourg]] but didn't have severe symptoms.<ref name="France 24-2020" /><ref name="dna.fr-2020" />

On 2 March 2020, it was announced that ten more people tested positive in the [[Grand Est]], eight hospitalised in [[Strasbourg]] and three in [[Nancy, France|Nancy]]. In [[Alsace]], a [[Molsheim]] couple was hospitalised. The man had returned from Italy and was hospitalised first, followed by his wife. Four members of a family from [[Hésingue]], a 27-year-old mother and her two children aged five and one, as well as one of the grandfathers, a 57-year-old man, were infected. Two others cases identified in the [[Bas-Rhin]], a 49-year-old man and his 14-year-old son, had been in contact with a person from the Oise hospitalised in [[Amiens]].<ref name="auto4"/> Three family members were hospitalised in [[Nancy, France|Nancy]], a father and his son, aged 50 and 23, and the girl-friend of the 50-year-old patient, all from the department of [[Aisne]].<ref name="estrepublicain-2020"/>

=== Hauts-de-France ===
As of 2 March 2020, 67 people<ref name="auto"/> were infected by COVID-19 in the [[Hauts-de-France]] region. This figure, the highest in France, was linked to a major cluster originating in the city of [[Creil]], in the [[Oise]], whose source remains unknown. The five departments of Hauts-de-France now each had at least one proven case of people infected by the coronavirus. In [[Aisne]] and [[Pas-de-Calais]], spared by the epidemic until 1 March, the authorities confirmed the presence of patients with COVID-19, except the [[Nord (French department)|Nord]] where hospitalisations without local infections had taken place.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
Some days before, on 26 February, a man died overnight after being rushed to a Paris hospital from [[Creil]] where he was hospitalised for 6 days in [[Intensive care unit|ICU]] in serious condition, bringing the total death toll in the country to two at that time.<ref name="France 24-2020" /><ref name="Franceinfo-2020a" /> On 2 March 2020, it was announced the second death in [[Hauts-de-France]] and the third at the national level, a woman of 89 "''diagnosed post-mortem''" at the hospital of [[Compiègne]]. She had other serious pre-existing conditions.<ref name="auto" />

=== Île-de-France ===
On 25 February 2020, a young woman returned from China was hospitalised in the [[Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital]], Paris but showed signs of recovery and was out of hospital on 26 February 2020.<ref name="ladepeche-2020"/><ref name="francebleu1582653755"/><ref name="LCI-2020a" />

On 28 February 2020, an infected person from the [[Val-d'Oise]], returning from Italy was hospitalised in Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris. He was working for a contractor of [[Charles de Gaulle Airport]].<ref name="francetvinfo3843241"/><ref name="Le Monde-2020"/> On the same day, [[Hôpital Tenon]], which had received a patient from the Oise before he had been diagnosed, announced that it had been directly affected by the coronavirus with three infected medical personnel.<ref name="leparisien8269890"/>

Two cases of Coronavirus had been identified in [[Seine-Saint-Denis]] in [[Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis|Montreuil]] in the same family, a father and his child, on 2 March 2020.<ref name="francebleu1583145133"/>

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a substantial [[International Women's Day]] march occurred in Paris on 8 March 2020.<ref name=20200308voanews>{{cite news |title=International Women's Day Marked Across the World |url=https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/international-womens-day-marked-across-world |work=VOA News |date=8 March 2020 |access-date=22 April 2020 |archive-date=9 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309200331/https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/international-womens-day-marked-across-world |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Normandy ===
{{Main|COVID-19 Pandemic in Normandy}}
On 27 February 2020, a doctor from the Rouen University Hospital was declared a positive carrier of COVID-19 and was confined to his home, after a professional journey to [[Munich]].<ref name="paris-normandie-2020"/> A second case of coronavirus was confirmed in Normandy on 2 March. He is a French resident in [[Eure]]. He was hospitalised at the Rouen University Hospital.<ref name="auto5"/>

=== New Aquitaine ===
[[File:Covid vaccination booths in Poitiers (France).jpg|thumb|right|COVID-19 vaccination booths in the city of Poitiers, in 2021]]
After news of the first infected individuals in Europe had been released in late January,<ref name="Provenzano-2020" /> three new patients were declared COVID-19 positive in February, a patient in [[Bordeaux]] who was hospitalised at the Bordeaux University Hospital after returning from a stay in Italy, a soldier from [[Rochefort, Charente-Maritime]] who had had contact with people from the Creil air base in the Oise, who was hospitalised in [[Poitiers]], and a woman from [[Mont-de-Marsan]] who had also been in contact with cases in Creil, who was hospitalised in [[Bordeaux]].<ref name="francetvinfo1793211"/>

=== Occitania ===
[[File:Lidl Toulouse Distanciation Sociale.jpg|thumb|Residents of [[Toulouse]] maintain social distance while queueing]]
Three cases were declared in Occitania in February 2020, all in Montpellier. A man who recently returned from Italy was diagnosed on 27 February 2020,<ref name="midilibre-2020"/> followed the next day by his wife and a 41-year-old man recently returned from [[Emilia-Romagna]].<ref name="actu.fr-2020"/> On 1 March 2020, the two children of the couple were hospitalised and one was COVID-19 positive.<ref name="francebleu1583167955"/> On 2 March 2020, two new cases were announced there: a 31-year-old man and his 29-year-old wife, also back from [[Emilia-Romagna]].<ref name="ladepeche8768545"/> One day later, a 70-year-old man from the village of [[Boisset-et-Gaujac]] in the Gard was hospitalised in [[Nîmes]].<ref name="ladepeche-2020b"/>

On 2 March 2020, a case in [[Nimes]] was traced to the mid-February Mulhouse Megachurch event. This case helped identify the Mulhouse cluster.<ref name="AutoQ7-29"/>

=== Pays de la Loire ===
A 58-year-old female general practitioner, tested positive for coronavirus and was hospitalised on 27 February 2020, at the Nantes University Hospital. Hers was the first confirmed case in the [[Pays de la Loire]] region. She lived near [[Compiègne]], in the Oise department, where a dozen cases had already been identified. On 13 February 2020, she had seen a patient who was later hospitalised in an intensive care unit in Amiens.<ref name="www6755160"/><ref name="www6756083"/>

On 2 March 2020, four people were hospitalised at the Angers University Hospital for cases of coronavirus.<ref name="auto3"/> The first case was detected on 28 February 2020; a 27-year-old woman from the [[Sarthe]] declared herself to the SAMU centre 15 after a stay in [[Milan]] in Italy. Three other cases have since been detected in [[Mayenne]] and [[Maine-et-Loire]]. They were infected by a patient from [[Brest, France|Brest]].<ref name="Ouest-France-2020b"/>

=== Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ===
The first case of the [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]] region was announced on 28 February 2020. A young woman from [[Cannes]] was infected after a journey in [[Milan]].<ref name="Nice-Matin-2020"/> One day later three new cases were hospitalised, two French vacationers returned from a risk zone and an Italian tourist.<ref name="nicematin472403"/> Two new cases appeared during the weekend of 29 February 2020 and 1 March 2020: a 15-year-old adolescent and a 23-year-old woman.<ref name="auto1"/> On 2 March 2020, a seventh case was announced, a 3-year-old girl.<ref name="auto1" />

On 29 February 2020, Monaco announced its first COVID-19 case, a man who was admitted to the [[Princess Grace Hospital Centre]], then transferred to the Nice University Hospital in France.<ref name="BFMTV-2020-1" />

On 22 March 2020, the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture issued a decree putting into place a curfew from 10&nbsp;pm to 5&nbsp;am affecting cities of more than 10,000 residents and all towns on the Mediterranean coast until 31 March 2020. This replaced local measures which had already been taken in [[Nice]], [[Béziers]], and [[Cannes]].<ref name="lexpress2121662"/>

=== Overseas regions ===
==== French Guiana ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in French Guiana}}
As of 4 March 2020, [[French Guiana]] had five confirmed cases, all in [[Saint-Laurent du Maroni]].<ref name="20200304antiguaobserver"/> The first death was announced on 20 April 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.franceguyane.fr/actualite/sante/coronavirus/un-premier-mort-du-covid-19-en-guyane-467580.php|title=Un premier mort du Covid-19 en Guyane|language=fr|website=France Guyane|access-date=20 April 2020|archive-date=21 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421033212/https://www.franceguyane.fr/actualite/sante/coronavirus/un-premier-mort-du-covid-19-en-guyane-467580.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Guadeloupe ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in Guadeloupe}}
By 26 March 2020, there had been 84 positive cases and 1 death in Guadeloupe.<ref name="AutoQ7-30"/>

==== Martinique ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in Martinique}}
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the [[Martinique]] on 5 March 2020.<ref name="first">{{cite web|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/martinique/coronavirus-deux-cas-confirmes-martinique-807587.html|title=Coronavirus : deux cas confirmés en Martinique|work=France Info|first=Jean-Claude|last=Samyde|date=5 March 2020|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-date=6 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306135023/https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/martinique/coronavirus-deux-cas-confirmes-martinique-807587.html|url-status=live}}</ref> By 15 March 2020, the first virus-related death had occurred and there were 15 infected patients in Martinique.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/martinique/coronavirus-covid-19-premier-deces-lies-au-virus-15-patients-touches-martinique-811764.html|title=Coronavirus Covid-19 : un premier décès lié au virus et 15 patients touchés en Martinique|website=Martinique la 1ère|date=15 March 2020|language=fr-FR|access-date=21 March 2020|archive-date=18 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318213711/https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/martinique/coronavirus-covid-19-premier-deces-lies-au-virus-15-patients-touches-martinique-811764.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Mayotte ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in Mayotte}}
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached [[Mayotte]] on 10 March 2020.<ref name=francetvinfo810856>{{cite news|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/mayotte/mayotte-enregistre-premier-cas-coronavirus-810856.html|title=Mayotte enregistre un premier cas de Coronavirus|first=Toufaili|last=Andjilani|newspaper=[[La Première (France)|Mayotte 1ère]]|date=14 March 2020|language=fr|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-date=15 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315144804/https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/mayotte/mayotte-enregistre-premier-cas-coronavirus-810856.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On 31 March 2020, the first person died of COVID-19.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/mayotte/coronavirus-covid-19-12-nouveaux-cas-confirmes-mayotte-94-au-total-818100.html |title=Coronavirus COVID-19 : 12 nouveaux cas confirmés à Mayotte : 94 au total |website=Mayotte la 1ère |date=31 March 2020 |language=fr-FR |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=7 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407024001/https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/mayotte/coronavirus-covid-19-12-nouveaux-cas-confirmes-mayotte-94-au-total-818100.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Réunion ====
{{main|COVID-19 pandemic in Réunion}}
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached [[Réunion]] on 11 March 2020.<ref name=francetvinfo809552>{{cite web|first=Laura|last=Philippon|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/reunion/premier-cas-coronavirus-confirme-reunion-809552.html|title=Un premier cas de coronavirus confirmé à La Réunion|language=fr|work=France Info|date=11 March 2020|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-date=5 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405144320/https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/reunion/premier-cas-coronavirus-confirme-reunion-809552.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Overseas and sui generis collectivities ===
==== French Polynesia ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in French Polynesia}}
[[Maina Sage]], a French politician representing French Polynesia at the [[French national assembly]], was diagnosed with the first case of COVID-19 in [[French Polynesia]] on 11 March 2020.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==== New Caledonia ====
{{main|COVID-19 pandemic in New Caledonia}}
As of 19 March, there have been two cases in New Caledonia.<ref name="rnz412092"/>

==== Saint Barthélemy ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Barthélemy}}
A resident of the French island of [[Saint Barthélemy]] was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 1 March 2020. His parents on the neighbouring island of [[Saint Martin (island)|Saint Martin]] also tested positive.<ref name="FranceTVinfo-2020"/>

==== Saint Martin ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in French Saint Martin}}
A couple from the French part of [[Saint Martin (island)|Saint Martin]] island was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 1 March 2020. Their son, who lives on the neighbouring island of [[Saint Barthélemy]], also tested positive.<ref name="FranceTVinfo-2020" />

==== Saint Pierre and Miquelon ====
{{Main|COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Pierre and Miquelon}}

==== Wallis and Futuna ====
{{main|COVID-19 pandemic in Wallis and Futuna}}
The first case in [[Wallis and Futuna]] was reported on 16 October 2020.

===''Charles de Gaulle'' aircraft carrier===
{{main|COVID-19 pandemic on Charles de Gaulle}}
The [[Ministry of Armed Forces (France)|Ministry of Armed Forces]] reported infections on board one of its ships on 8 April 2020. After about 40 crew members aboard the aircraft carrier {{ship|French aircraft carrier|Charles de Gaulle||2}} showed symptoms, the ship cut short its mission and returned to its home port of [[Toulon]] on 12 April 2020, 11 days earlier than planned.<ref name="france2420200408A"/><ref name="reuters-heading"/> The ministry initially announced that out of 66 personnel tested, 50 were positive.<ref name="gaulle.parisien"/><ref name="AutoQ7-31"/> Three sailors were evacuated by air to {{ill|Saint Anne Army Teaching Hospital|fr|Hôpital d'instruction des armées Sainte-Anne}}.<ref name="gaulle.parisien" /><ref name="gaulle.times"/> On 18 April 2020, the final count of infected crew members was announced as 1,046 with nearly 50 percent diagnosed as asymptomatic.<ref name="AutoQ7-33"/>

The carrier arrived in Toulon on the afternoon of 12 April 2020, when a 14-day quarantine for the crew began. The source of the infection remains unknown, as the last port of call had been Brest from 13 to 15 March.<ref name="20200409courrierinternational"/><ref name="franceinfo"/><ref name="AutoQ7-34"/><ref name="20200416theguardian"/>{{excessive citations inline|date=June 2020}}

There was criticism in France the carrier mission was not interrupted after the first cases were detected,<ref name="AutoQ7-35"/> and rumours that the carrier had asked permission to interrupt its mission in mid March during its stopover in [[Brest, France|Brest]], which had been refused. [[Florence Parly]], the French [[Minister of the Armed Forces (France)|Minister of Armed Forces]], said that these rumours were false when questioned by French deputies.<ref name="AutoQ7-36"/>