Agnes Buzyn was the Health Minister of France when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Her husband, Ives Levy was the CEO of INSERM, and helped cut the ribbon at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn reports an 80 year old Chinese tourist diagnosed with Covid-19 has died at Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris on Friday 14 February. He is believed to be the first official COVID-19 death outside of Asia.1)
Buzyn resigned as Health Minister in mid-2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic heated up.2)
In September 2021, investigators at a special court in Paris found grounds to charge Buzyn with “endangering the lives of others”.3)