Avalanche of positive Covid-19 cases among ministers!
After Elisabeth Borne at the end of last week, it is Roselyne Bachelot who for two days has been forced into total isolation.
On Saturday evening, from her Twitter account, the 74-year-old Minister of Culture said that after the appearance of "respiratory symptoms", she had taken a test which turned out to be positive.
A few hours later, it was Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Industry) who discovered "thanks to the TousAnticovid application", that she was for her part in a contact case, and therefore had to isolate herself for seven days.
The tile, for the executive, while these two members of the government are, by their ministerial perimeter, at the heart of the system to fight against the epidemic.
"Roselyne is very tired," says one at the top of the State.
This did not prevent the controversy from swelling after Liberation revealed that she had participated, Friday evening, in the first performance of Faust, in the great hall of the Opéra-de-Paris, before posing for the photo in tight rows with the protagonists of the show.
A few hours earlier, she was even handing the insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor to Michel Sardou, whom she even took in his arms as shown in a photo posted on Twitter.
This is now a contact case.
"The ministers are French like the others"
After Franck Riester, Brune Poirson, Emmanuelle Wargon, Bruno Le Maire, Elisabeth Borne, and, of course, Emmanuel Macron at the end of last year, she is therefore the fifth personality of the executive to suffer the virus.
Not to mention contact cases, like Jean-Yves Le Drian and Cédric O very recently.
From there to relaunch the idea of vaccinating members of the government, very exposed because of their functions?
Friday morning, after the controversy aroused around the AstraZeneca, Jean Castex took the leap, "to reassure public opinion", explains his entourage.
"But the rule must remain the same as the one we set from the start: the ministers are French like the others, so no privilege", asserts Matignon.
“We must stick to the strategy by age groups to dismantle the healthcare system.
It is the only line that holds, because it is the most effective.
So, no exception ”, engages the Ministry of Health.