Although he has been vaccinated twice, ex-Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber was infected with the corona virus.
It is unclear where he was infected.
Munich - The number of infections is rising rapidly in Bavaria - one district currently has an incidence of over 500.
Only a few days ago, positive corona cases became known in the Bavarian state parliament.
At the moment eight MPs from different parliamentary groups have Corona *.
Now a prominent CSU politician is also affected.
Former Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber has corona.
A spokesman confirmed to
Münchner Merkur
on request that the 80-year-old has been in quarantine since the weekend.
He has mild symptoms, mainly a dry cough.
However, according to the circumstances, he is doing well.
CSU legend in quarantine at home: Stoiber is infected with Corona
The former CSU politician, who just celebrated his 80th birthday a few weeks ago, is fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca.
He received his second dose in July, which means that he has not yet received a booster vaccination.
There must be six months between the second vaccination and the booster.
It was apparently a vaccination breakthrough, the spokesman said.
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Stoiber was supposed to give a personal laudation on Monday at the Technical University of Munich in honor of the former EU Commission head Romano Prodi.
Despite the illness, the CSU politician instead recorded a video message from home.
Due to its importance in the expansion of the EU to include numerous Eastern European countries, Prodi was "one of the fathers of the reunification of the continent," said Stoiber.
Despite two Astrazeneca vaccinations: Stoiber's Corona test was positive
It is unclear where the CSU * politician was infected.
He had several appointments with several participants, said his spokesman for the
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"You can no longer trace it in retrospect." However, everyone involved, as well as the health department, were informed.
The infection was found in a test on Saturday, the spokesman reported.
"He has been vaccinated twice with Astrazeneca *, which is the case of a breakthrough in the vaccination." Stoiber must now remain in quarantine until the end of next week, so far nobody from his environment has been infected.
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