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Emmanuel Macron tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday and the questions that arise now are about where he contracted the virus and who infected him. The possibilities are many, but it is in two meetings in particular that the speculation is concentrated: the meeting of the European Council in Brussels, at the end of last week, and a dinner at the Elysee Palace, on Wednesday.
It is not clear where Macron may have been infected, but French Health Minister Olivier Véran told France 5 that the French president may have contracted the new coronavirus during a meeting of the European Council, which took place on the 10th and 11th. December in Brussels. European leaders met for about 20 hours.
Speculation soared after Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic, who attended the European Union summit, announced that he had also tested positive for Covid-19.
Slovak Prime Minister infected a week after the European Union summit
“Today I am one of you,” wrote Igor Matovic on the social network Facebook, a publication that he accompanied with a photograph of the positive test for the new coronavirus.
Earlier in the week, Macron also spoke at a conference in Paris, as part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which was attended by the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the Spanish Prime Minister. Pedro Sánchez, who is now isolated, although both have tested negative.
Already on Wednesday, Macron received a dozen political allies for dinner at the Elysee Palace, including French Prime Minister Jean Castex. On the morning of that same day, he had lunch with the Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, who will remain in prophylactic isolation for 14 days.
António Costa considered in contact with high risk exposure remains in prophylactic isolation
The aforementioned dinner that took place after midnight raised some doubts, since the number of people seated at the table exceeded the maximum recommended by the French government. However, the French Health Minister dismissed the hypothesis that it was there that Macron contracted the virus, although he insisted, in statements to the television channel France 5, that the table was large enough to guarantee adequate social distance.
On Thursday night, Macron left the Elysee Palace in Paris and took up residence in the La Lanterne presidential residence in Versailles to fulfill the mandatory quarantine period. The woman, Brigitte Macron, whose test was negative, will remain in the Elysee Palace.
Already in isolation, Macron shared a video on his Twitter account on Friday, updating his health. “I’m fine, I feel the same symptoms as yesterday: fatigue, headache, dry cough,” he said.
In isolation and sick, Emmanuel Macron made a video to say that “no one is safe from this virus”
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