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secondHealth Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has contracted the corona virus. As announced by the Health Ministry in Berlin, he tested positive for the virus on Wednesday afternoon. Spahn immediately went into domestic isolation, the message read. “So far he has only developed cold symptoms. All contact persons are kept up to date ”. This makes him the federal prime minister to be proven infected.
The photos show that Spahn attended the cabinet meeting at the Chancellery on Wednesday morning. In the images you can see Spahn with protection for his mouth and nose. As a government spokesman announced on Wednesday in Berlin at the request, the federal cabinet does not have to be taken into quarantine. The cabinet complies with hygiene and distance regulations, which aim to ensure that the quarantine of others or even all participants is not necessary in the case of a person who will then be tested for crown.
“Particularly optimized with regard to protection against infections”
Photos from the cabinet meeting show Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and government ministers in masks arriving in the meeting room. At the table, the masks are removed. “The conditions in the Federal Chancellery and in particular in the international conference room, in which the weekly cabinet meetings take place, have been particularly optimized with regard to protection against infections and have been monitored by the Berlin health department -Mitte, “said the spokesman. The cabinet meets there at a large round table. There are several places available between the participants.
Time and time again, top politicians had to go into quarantine due to risky encounters. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier hit him on Saturday. The reason was the positive corona test performed by a bodyguard. Since then, two tests by the head of state have come back negative. Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) had already entered quarantine on Monday due to a warning via the Corona app. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) and Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) had also temporarily isolated themselves at the end of September. A bodyguard was also infected near Maas. Altmaier went into quarantine as a precautionary measure because an employee of an EU minister who was present with him at a meeting of EU trade ministers in Berlin tested positive.
As a precautionary measure, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) was already quarantined at her home for nearly two weeks in March because she had been vaccinated by a doctor who was found to be infected with the coronavirus shortly after.
