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Ekaterina Zaharieva kept her distance throughout the council, and for the event in Luxembourg, the Bulgarian Foreign Minister was even more strict than the meetings in Brussels. PHOTO: Reuters
The Luxembourg Council became a superdistributor, our Deputy Prime Minister kept her distance
The Austrian and Belgian foreign ministers tested positive for coronavirus after meeting with their EU counterparts in Luxembourg last week. This forum is feared as a “super-spreader” of the infection, Reuters reported.
Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva also participates in the Council of Foreign Ministers. Austrian Alexander Schalenberg and his Belgian counterpart Sophie Wilmes sat together during a joint breakfast on Monday, said a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry in Vienna.
Zaharieva kept her distance throughout the council, and for the event in Luxembourg it was even stricter than the meetings in Brussels, our Foreign Ministry assured.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quarantined after his bodyguard tested positive. The Vatican has announced that there is a case of COVID-19 in the cardinal house “Santa Marta”, where Pope Francis lives.
The infection returned to Europe in full force. France reported a record 32,427 COVID-19 cases per day, and Britain reported more than 16,000 new infections. The Netherlands also registered a record: 8,114 cases. Large supermarket chains in Germany have said they are stocking up on toilet paper again.
Slovakia has started mass testing all citizens over 10 years of age as the number of new infections increases, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said. The tests will be free, he said, but did not specify whether they would be mandatory.
Authorities in the U.S. state of New York banned a wedding ceremony after learning that more than 10,000 guests could be present, in violation of measures to combat the virus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. “Look, you can get married, but you can’t invite thousands of people to your wedding. You’ll get the same result at the end of the day.” Plus, it’s cheaper, “joked the governor. According to local media, the wedding was performed by Orthodox Jews. , a community that recently protested in New York against the restrictions. The United States is the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, more than 8.34 million, and the number of deaths in the country is approaching the 225 thousand.
At the same time, for the first time in the world, experts from the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a live virus causing COVID-19 in frozen food packaging. They emphasize that contact with the surface of products containing live viruses can lead to infection.
A study from the University of Cincinnati showed that silk masks, along with surgical ones or those labeled N95, are much more recommended than those made of cotton or synthetic materials.
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