French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, the administration stated, adding that he would now self-seclude for the following week.
“The president tested positive for Covid-19 today,” it said in an explanation, adding that he had been tested after the “beginning of the main side effects”.
Macron will now, as per public guidelines, “self segregate for seven days. He will proceed to work and do his exercises distantly,” it said.
A representative for the administration said that every one of his excursions had been dropped, remembering an impending visit to Lebanon for December 22.
They added that he was attempting to survey where he might have gotten the infection. Macron was at an European Council heads of state meeting on December 10-11.
Executive Jean Castex will likewise self detach in the wake of coming into contact with Macron throughout the most recent couple of days, said Gerard Larcher, top of the Senate, the upper place of the French parliament.
The French president is one of a few heads of state and government around the globe who have contracted Covid-19, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump.
France, recently, facilitated limitations forced to fight the second flood of the Covid yet contamination rates stay high.
There is as yet a cross country short-term time limitation from 8pm to end the spread of the infection while cafés and bistros just as theaters and films stay shut.
More than 59,300 individuals have kicked the bucket in France of Covid since the beginning of the pandemic, as per official figures.
The account of more than 17,000 new cases on Wednesday alone has likewise created worry as individuals shop and travel all the more seriously in front of the Christmas occasions.
Like other EU states, France is placing its faith on an immunization to control the infection and Prime Minister Jean Castex said Wednesday the nation will get around 1.16 million Covid-19 antibody portions by year end.
FRENCH PRESIDENT CONTRACTS CORONA VIRUS
