Jean Castex positive for Covid-19 – The HuffPost

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COVID-19 – Prime Minister Jean Castex tested positive on Monday, November 22 in the evening at Covid-19 and “his agenda will be adjusted in the coming days so that he can continue his activities while being in solitary confinement” for ten days, Matignon told AFP.

The head of government had learned this Monday afternoon that one of his 11-year-old daughters had tested positive. “So he immediately practiced a PCR test, which turns out to be positive, ”explained Matignon.

Jean Castex went to Brussels on Monday morning, where he met his Belgian counterpart, Alexander De Croo.

The Prime Minister was also accompanied by the Ministers of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, of the Secretary of State for Europe, Clément Beaune.

Contact case three times

The Director General of Internal Security, Nicolas Lerner, that of External Security, Bernard Emie, the National Counterterrorism Prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, and the National Coordinator of Intelligence and the Fight against Terrorism, Laurent Nunez, were also part of the delegation during this trip.

The head of government, 56, who received two doses of the vaccine in the spring, had so far never tested positive.

The Prime Minister had however been in contact with Covid-19 on three occasions: in September 2020 during the Tour de France after sharing the car of the competition director, Christian Prudhomme, a second time after a dinner with Emmanuel Macron in December, then in June, after Jean Castex’s wife contracted the disease.

Before him, President Emmanuel Macron had tested positive in December 2020. Several ministers have also contracted the virus, such as the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, of Culture Roselyne Bachelot. That of Foreign Trade Franck Riester had tested positive in March 2020, as well as the Secretaries of State for the Ecological Transition at the time, Brune Poirson and Emmanuelle Wargon.

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