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French President Macron tested positive for Corona
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President Macron tested positive for coronavirus
Now the French head of state has been beaten: Macron had symptoms and a corona test came back positive. Particularly delicate: In recent days, Macron hasn’t exactly sat at home alone. The correspondent in France, Peter Heusch, has more information.
French President Emmanuel Macron contracted the corona virus. After the “first symptoms” he was tested and now has to isolate himself for a week and work remotely.
FFrench President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for the new corona virus. The 42-year-old man was examined after “the first symptoms appeared,” he said Thursday in a statement from the President’s Office in Paris. Now he will isolate himself for a week and continue his remote work. Macron’s planned trip to Lebanon for next week has been canceled.
Macron’s wife, Brigitte, tested negative for the virus on Tuesday before visiting a Paris hospital, his office said. The 67-year-old will also go into self-isolation. He has no symptoms.
Macron had numerous contacts with European politicians in recent days. At the end of last week he participated in an EU summit. On Monday, Macron received Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who is now in quarantine. The president of the EU Council, Charles Michel, also traveled to Macron in Paris that day. Michel was also according to his spokesperson as a precaution in self-isolation.
Macron also met with Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa on Wednesday. That day he also chaired a cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Jean Castex and the ministers. Castex’s office announced that it would also go into self-isolation for seven days.
Meanwhile, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) tested negative for the corona virus after the EU summit late last week. A spokeswoman for the Federal Press Office told AFP news agency on Thursday that the Chancellor “, as always after a European Council, carried out a PCR test a few days apart.” “Your result is negative.”
The summit ended on Friday. According to information from the EU, French authorities assume that Macron was only contagious from Monday night or Tuesday.
At the summit, Merkel “constantly adhered to the rules of protection against infections” or “wore an FFP2 mask,” said the spokeswoman for the Federal Press Office. The Chancellor sends Macron “best wishes for a speedy full recovery.” Also the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. He wished Macron a speedy recovery on Twitter.
More than 2.4 million cases
The first doses of the corona virus vaccine should be available in France by the end of the year. French Prime Minister Jean Castex told the National Assembly that 1.16 million units of a first vaccine would be delivered by the end of the month. Another 677,000 cans should be added in early January, another 1.6 million in February.
Castex said they will do their best to coordinate the vaccination campaign with other EU countries. It had previously announced that initially one million high-risk people would be vaccinated. These are older people in nursing homes. Vaccinations should be free in France, there should be no compulsory vaccination.
The health authorities of the country with its around 67 million inhabitants reported this Wednesday more than 17,500 new infections. This means that around 2.4 million cases have been recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic.
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