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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von de Leyen, will be in isolation until Tuesday morning, after having been in contact with an infected person last week at the meeting of the Council of State in Cascais, Lisbon.
“They informed me that I participated in a meeting last Tuesday, where there was a person who yesterday [no domingo] tested positive for covid-19. According to the adopted regulation, I will be in self-isolation until tomorrow. [terça-feira] in the morning”wrote the leader of the community executive in her account on the social network Twitter.
Ursula von der Leyen did a test on Thursday, with a negative result, and today she will do another.
On Sunday night the Presidency of the Republic was informed that the State Councilor António Lobo Xavier is infected with the virus causing covid-19.
António Lobo Xavier was seated between Leonor Beleza and Francisco Louçã.
WHOEVER WAS TESTED HAD A NEGATIVE RESULT
All the personalities that were part of the meeting and that have already been tested and had a negative result, among which the Republic President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Prime Minister, António Costa, the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Ferro Rodrigues, and also Jorge Sampaio and Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
The tests were carried out by the Champalimaud Foundation.
A covid-19 pandemic It has already caused more than one million thirty thousand deaths and more than 34.9 million cases of contagion around the world, according to a balance made by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,005 people died from 79,151 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin of the General Directorate of Health.
