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When the coronavirus takes the government ranks

2021-03-23T19:47:12.477Z


STORY - Head of State, ministers, deputies, secretaries of state ... Many political leaders have, since the start of the health crisis, had to deal with the disease while continuing their activities.


The successive waves of the epidemic do not spare the top of the state.

Even before the first confinement last March, Minister Franck Riester had tested positive for the coronavirus.

The forty-something, yet in good health, later admitted having taken

"a month and a half"

to recover.

Emmanuelle Wargon and former Secretary of State Brune Poirson had also been infected.

In September, it was Bruno Le Maire's turn to be affected by the disease.

The Minister of the Economy had told on the radio how the episode had been

"violent"

, calling for taking the measure of the severity of the virus.

In mid-December, the President of the Republic had himself contracted the virus and observed a period of quarantine at La Lanterne, in Versailles, communicating almost daily on the evolution of his symptoms.

Just before we learned that his wife, Brigitte, was also positive.

At each peak, members of the government are affected.

We can't escape this reality

A minister spared for the moment

This time, while Jean Castex spoke of

"third wave"

and that the establishments

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Source: lefigaro

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