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He is said to have no symptoms, but everyone in the Austrian government will be tested for covid-19 because Schallenberg participated in a government meeting on Wednesday.
Schallenberg may have been infected in connection with the meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday, a spokesperson claims in a press release.
Ann Linde’s press secretary, Klara Watmani, says the Swedish foreign minister is fine and has no symptoms, but applies the task until she receives a negative test result.
Watmani says that this does not mean that meetings scheduled for Linde have to be canceled. To TT’s question about when the test results can arrive, Watmani responds:
– I have no information about it but we hope it arrives as soon as possible.
Belgian Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmès, who was also present at the meeting of Foreign Ministers, announced on Friday that she had isolated herself with suspicious symptoms of covid-19.
Question marks are growing around the meetings of top EU politicians last week.
On Thursday and Friday, the EU Heads of State and Government met in Brussels, a meeting that was questioned by both Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Finnish Sanna Marin, who felt it should have been held digitally. .
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, for his part, considered, as did, among others, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the president of the EU Permanent Council, Charles Michel, that it was necessary to be seen physically.
Sanna Marin decided to leave the summit on Friday, after a member of parliament she met with earlier in the week tested positive for COVID-19. She is jointly tested and has been placed under voluntary quarantine, according to a statement from Finnish government offices.
Already on thursday The president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, left the summit to self-quarantine, for security reasons, after one of her employees tested positive for COVID-19.
The Polish Mateusz Morawiecki did not attend the meeting at all, as he met people who had been found infected.
Maria Soläng, Löfven’s press secretary, told TT on Saturday that the prime minister is not in quarantine, has no symptoms and is following the recommendations of the Swedish Public Health Agency.
