Since Tuesday, November 23, the Prime Minister must observe strict isolation of ten days after his 11-year-old daughter, and then himself, have tested positive for Covid-19.
If Matignon assured that the head of government had "always strictly respected barrier gestures", estimating that "it happened to many parents to be contaminated by their children" minors under 12 years ineligible for vaccination, recent images have yet shown an unmasked Prime Minister ... not very respectful of physical distancing and barrier gestures.
A relaxation observed in other members of the government, such as Gérald Darmanin, as well as during certain trips by the head of state, Emmanuel Macron.
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A few hours before the announcement on Monday evening of his positive test, Jean Castex had gone to Brussels to meet his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo as well as his four ministers ... all now contact cases.
Placed in quarantine, like his ministers having lunched with the French delegation, the head of the Belgian executive responded to the press on Tuesday by videoconference, while the French interior ministers, Gerald Darmanin, and his colleague in charge of Sports , Roxana Maracineanu, also contact cases, took less precaution by going masked in the morning studios of France Inter and RMC.
