A LR deputy from the Haut-Rhin is currently hospitalized showing after being infected with the coronavirus, parliamentary sources said Thursday evening, confirming information from the Sunday Journal.
It is Jean-Luc Reitzer, deputy Les Républicains du Haut-Rhin, according to DNA information confirmed by the Parisian. In the process, the National Assembly said Thursday evening in a statement that the elected official was "currently hospitalized in intensive care."
Likewise, an employee working at the deputies' bar, also contaminated with coronavirus, is "confined to home", specifies the Assembly. Finally, a second employee working in the deputy's restaurant, currently only suspected of infection, is also hospitalized.
"He's always abroad"
MP LR Jean-Luc Reitzer was present at questions to the government on Tuesday, February 25, but absent this week from the National Assembly. "He is part of the Foreign Affairs Committee and he travels a lot," explains a LR deputy contacted by the Parisian.
"He's always abroad and on planes," added a colleague. Also according to our information, the services of the Assembly are investigating to find out with whom the elected official could be in contact.
The Mulhouse area is one of the centers of coronavirus in France. Several dozen cases of infection have spread throughout the country from an evangelical gathering organized in Mulhouse in February and bringing together around 2,000 people.
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In total, "in France, today at 4 p.m., 423 confirmed cases are 138 cases more than yesterday," announced Health Director General Jérôme Salomon during his daily press briefing on Thursday. "We now have seven people dead, six men and one woman," he added.
Among the sick, 23 are in serious condition and hospitalized in intensive care, eight more than the day before, said Jérôme Salomon. This assessment shows the largest increase in a day since the start of the crisis.