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The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, is infected with Covid-19. The case was known this Sunday, the day the Council of Ministers met and electronically approved the proposal for the State Budget for 2021. Manuel Heitor is asymptomatic and is recovering at home from the new coronavirus infection.
The Government will carry out the tests this Monday in order to detect any new infections that may have occurred, as the executive met last Thursday.
As a result, all members of the Government who participated in the meeting of the Council of Ministers last Thursday are being tested, even those who have not had close contact ”with the minister, says António Costa’s office.
The result of the Covid-19 tests on the remaining members of the Government is expected to be known during the morning of Monday.
The ministers and secretaries of state will be subject to tests starting Monday, which will affect the agendas of the politicians of various members of the António Costa executive, such as Matos Fernandes. The Minister of the Environment would be at the beginning of the second phase of removal of waste from S. Pedro da Cova, but he will have already been forced to cancel his presence due to the Covid-19 case in the Government.
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