After the Minister in charge of Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Sunday, the French Minister in charge of Foreign Trade Franck Riester tested positive this Wednesday for Covid-19.
“Following a fever, I tested positive,” he wrote on Twitter.
"I isolate myself from this evening, and carry out my missions from a distance," he added.
Following a fever, I tested positive for Covid-19.
I isolate myself this evening, and carry out my missions from a distance.
Be careful, get vaccinated and protect your loved ones by respecting health instructions and barrier gestures.
- Franck Riester (@franckriester) December 22, 2021
According to his official agenda, Franck Riester was to make a trip to Ariege on Thursday.
He went to the Alpes-Maritimes on Monday for a visit during which he visited several companies to discuss with managers and employees.
Already in the debate on the pandemic, while he was Minister of Culture, Franck Riester had already tested positive for Covid-19 in March 2020. “I can assure you that I took a month and a half to recover from this disease, ”he told RTL. At the end of November, Prime Minister Jean Castex had tested positive for the coronavirus, just like his 11-year-old daughter.
France has recorded more than 84,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, Public Health France reported on Wednesday.
"We will very likely exceed 100,000 contaminations per day by the end of the month," the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, warned on Wednesday morning.
The Omicron variant, which seems more contagious than the Delta variant, “is gradually becoming the majority in several regions of our country, in particular in Île-de-France, and in Paris more particularly.
It should be soon at the national level, probably between Christmas and the New Year ”, also said the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal.
