BBC: Polish President infected with coronavirus after meeting with Radev in Tallinn



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Presidents Rumen Radev and Andrzej Duda were invited in Tallinn to the Three Seas meeting. In the middle is his Estonian colleague. PHOTO: PRESIDENCY

Polish President Andrzej Duda tested positive for coronavirus, following a meeting with Rumen Radev in Estonia, according to the BBC. While it is not yet clear where he contracted the infection, Duda was in Tallinn on Monday, where he met with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, who was later quarantined, according to British media.

A spokesman for the Polish president also caught the coronavirus and said on Twitter that he was isolated in quarantine.

Andrzej Duda participates together with Radev in the meeting of the “Three Seas” initiative in the Estonian capital. Subsequently, the Bulgarian president interrupted his visit to the country and returned to Bulgaria due to contact with the infected Air Force chief, Gen. Dimitar Petrov.

“The test result is positive, the president is fine. We are in constant contact with the health services, ”said Duda Spihalski’s spokesperson.

On Friday, Andrzej Duda, 48, visited a field hospital that is being built at the national stadium in the capital Warsaw. In the photos, he was wearing a mask at a meeting with workers there, the BBC clarifies. The president also met with 19-year-old tennis star Iga Schwentek, who won the Roland Garros tournament this year, and awarded him a Golden Cross of Merit for his sporting achievements. “Neither I nor the members of my team have symptoms of coronavirus. We test regularly. We will go to quarantine, as are the rules,” wrote the tennis player on Twitter.

Duda is among a handful of world leaders who have contracted COVID-19, including US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. On Friday in Poland there were a record 13,600 new cases of virus infection per day. A red zone has been declared across the country and schools and restaurants have been partially closed.



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