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

=== 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"/>