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After the chancellor and the minister for Europe, the economy minister must now also be quarantined.
12:04 pm, September 24, 2020
According to the chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) Minister of Chancellery Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) is Minister of Economy Margarete Schramböck (ÖVP) another member of the government in corona quarantine. The reason is, as the department head announced in a written statement Thursday, a positive case at the EU trade ministers meeting 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.
German Minister of Economy Peter altmaier, who was the host of the ministerial meeting, had already announced the night before that he would initially continue his official business from home, as an “employee of an EU minister present in Berlin” had tested positive for Corona.
Schramböck (ÖVP) will not be seen in public for long after the crown case at the meeting of trade ministers in Berlin. The department head will be quarantined for ten days as prescribed. To do this, he becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) came out of isolation on Friday and can attend his visit to Hungary scheduled for tomorrow.
Edtstadler has been in home isolation for a week because a member of the Foreign Ministry’s cabinet was ill with Covid-19. Other tests resulted in a second positive test in the environment. Edtstadler himself, for his part, tested negative on several occasions and therefore has official permission to leave his apartment as of Friday. That is why he immediately travels to Budapest, where he meets with the chancellor, among other things. Peter szijjarto Satisfies.
In Schramböck it will take even longer. The positive case in the meeting in Germany was in the delegation of the Latvian vice commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis. Schramböck had contact with him in Berlin. The test result of the accompanying employee is still pending.
