Mayor Henriette Reker has gone to the clinic for inpatient treatment.
The diagnosis is now known.
She is on the mend.
Update from January 1, 12.25 p.m.:
According to the
Cologne city scoreboard
, the
mayor of Cologne,
Henriette Reker,
is on the
mend
.
Now her diagnosis has also been made public.
Reker was
diagnosed
with
venous thrombosis
on December 29
, according to the
city of Cologne
.
She then went to inpatient treatment.
She is fine, she informs herself about the corona situation and the turn of the year in the city.
"Treatment with the aim of a full recovery is positive," the newspaper quoted a spokesman as saying.
According to the current status, the
mayor of Cologne
could leave the clinic in the coming days.
Cologne: Mayor Henriette Reker in inpatient treatment - diagnosis initially unclear
Update from December 31, 2020, 9:25 a.m
.: Cologne will have to do without the mayor Henriette Reker over New Year's Eve - she is still in the hospital.
As the WDR has learned from a spokesman for the city, details about her illness will be announced after New Year's Eve.
The spokesman, Alexander Vogel, has already spoken to
Reker on the
phone: "She can be contacted" is all he currently says about it.
The
hospital
stay
could
last
seven to 14 days,
according to Reker's environment.
The mayor is currently represented by Andrea Blome, head of the transport department.
In Cologne, it is the fifth anniversary of New Year's Eve, when women were attacked around the cathedral.
First report from December 30, 2020, 10:08 a.m
.: Cologne -
Henriette Reker
, Lord Mayor of
Cologne
, is currently being treated in a clinic.
This is reported by the
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
.
Reker went “because of an
acute diagnosis
to inpatient treatment at the
University Clinic in Cologne
.
The treatment was started there yesterday evening, ”the newspaper quoted a city spokesman as saying.
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Henriette Reker, Lord Mayor of Cologne, during a press conference.
© Marius Becker / dpa
Henriette Reker: The Lord Mayor of Cologne has gone to inpatient treatment
How long the mayor will have to be treated as an inpatient is still open.
"The diagnosis is neither related to a
Covid 19 disease
nor to the
long-term
consequences of the attack on October 17, 2015," the city of Cologne reported.
The Lord Mayor of Cologne Henriette #Reker @HenrietteReker is currently receiving inpatient treatment at the University Clinic # Köln.https: //t.co/1n4Zqhtn31
- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (@ksta_koeln) December 30, 2020
The
mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker
, was seriously injured with a knife in a politically motivated act at an election campaign in 2015.
She was temporarily in an artificial coma.
(aka)
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