Prime Minister, Jean Castex, Positive Diagnosed at COVID-19

Contact case after one of his daughters, aged 11, has been recognized, he had been interested in isolation Monday at the end of the day and had led the meeting with elected officials of Guadeloupe by videoconference.

Le Monde with AFP

The Prime Minister Jean Castex, was declared positive at COVID-19, Monday, November 22nd in the evening, and “his agenda will be laid out in the coming days so that he continues his activities while being in isolation” for ten days. Case contact After one of his 11-year-old daughters was diagnosed positively, he had been interested in isolation at the end of the day and led the meeting with elected officials of Guadeloupe by videoconference.

The head of government “immediately practiced a PCR test, the result of which will be known and communicated in the evening,” said Matignon. Jean Castex had gone in the morning in Brussels where he had met his Belgian counterpart, Alexander de Croo.

Jean CASTEX originally had to receive in Matignon, Monday at 6 pm, part of the elected officials of Guadeloupe, in order to allow them “to expose their analysis of the situation on the spot”, surrounded by the ministers of the interior, Gérald Darmanin , Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu, and health, Olivier Véran.

The Prime Minister had already been a contact at COVID-19 twice: a first time after a dinner with Emmanuel Macron in December, following which the president had been diagnosed positive, then in June, after his wife had contracted the disease.

The head of government, who received two doses of vaccine, had never been positive tested.

/Media reports.