ONE of the Brits diagnosed with coronavirus in France has been named.
Bob Saynor has been named locally as one of the five Britons staying at a chalet in the Alps who has the disease.
The nine-year-old son of the 48-year-old environmental consultant is also thought to have caught the coronavirus.
The family are said to have moved to France from their home in Lyndhurst Road, Hove a few years ago.
They are being treated in a French hospital along with three members of another family who were staying in the six-bedroom chalet, The Mail on Sunday reported.
Mr Saynor's two other children and four other Brits are being kept in isolation at a French hospital as a precaution.
The dad and his wife Catriona had moved to live permanently in the chalet in Les Contamines-Montjoie, near Megeve, three years ago.
Jean-Yves Grall, the head of the regional health authority, said the child’s mother "was in Britain taking exams" at the time of the contamination.
The man who is believed to have infected the five Brits did not display symptoms of his illness until he returned to Brighton from his holiday in France.
He had stayed with the family following a business trip to Singapore.
The dramatic development in the Alps came as a school pupil from PACA was told by Public Health England to "self-isolate" for 14 days.
A Hove pub also asked five staff members to "self-isolate" after the coronavirus victim visited last week.
More than 720 people have died of the disease worldwide and 34,500 have been infected.
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