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After Foreign Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP), Economy Minister Margarete Schramböck (ÖVP) is another member of the government in Corona’s quarantine. The reason is, as the department head announced in a written statement on Thursday, a positive case at the meeting of EU trade ministers on Monday. Schramböck himself tested negative.
Applicable requirements, such as maintaining sufficient distance or protection for the mouth and nose, were given at the ministerial meeting at all times, reports Schramböck. However, as a precaution, go into quarantine at home.
The German Minister for Economic Affairs, Peter Altmaier, who hosted the ministerial meeting, had already announced the night before that he would initially continue his official activities from home, as an “employee of an EU minister present in Berlin” he’d tested positive for Corona.
After a cabinet employee of European and constitutional minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) tested positive for SARS-CoV2 on Thursday afternoon, the department head is also in home quarantine. Edtstadler has already been tested and is negative. She is now waiting at home for instructions from health authorities, according to an APA spokesman.
The employee whom Edtstadler had contact with at the office is also under home quarantine. According to a press release, he is doing well under the circumstances. All other contact persons were also immediately screened, are under home quarantine until further notice and, it was emphasized, will follow the instructions of the authorities in full.
