French Prime Minister Jean Castex tests positive for Coronavirus
Paris:
His office told AFP French Prime Minister Jean Castex had tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday evening, adding that he would be isolated for 10 days while continuing to work.
Prime Minister Castex “immediately instituted a PCR test” after discovering that one of his daughters had tested positive, his office said.
Prime Minister Castex was in Brussels on Monday morning, where he met his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo.
He was accompanied on the trip by a number of other senior colleagues, including French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin and European Minister Clement Beaune.
The 56-year-old head of government received two doses of the vaccine in the spring and has never tested positive before.
President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte both contracted the disease last year.
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