As the epidemic accelerates in France, the Covid is also spreading through the ranks of the government.
Some 24 hours after Prime Minister Jean Castex was declared a contact case of his 11-year-old daughter, then tested positive, it is the turn of the Minister of Integration, Brigitte Klinkert, to announce that she too is ill.
According to her social networks, however, the minister would not present "
at this stage any symptoms
".
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"
I adjusted my agenda to continue my activities in isolation,
" said the 65-year-old member of the government.
Contact case - but not of the Prime Minister - then tested positive Tuesday morning, she is now entering a period of isolation of ten days.
This second case in the government comes as the Defense Council is due to consider the issue of the timing of the recalls on Wednesday, an issue made urgent by the acceleration of the spread of the virus.
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Among the contact cases of Jean Castex, five ministers have already been able to break their isolation by being tested negative.
They are Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Éric Dupond-Moretti (Justice), Roxana Maracineanu (Sports), Clément Beaune (Europe and Foreign Affairs) and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (Tourism).