Greens: Ricarda Lang tested positive for Corona – shortly before the party congress

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Ricarda Lang: "Fortunately I've been vaccinated three times, I'm fine and I don't feel any symptoms"

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Ricarda Lang wants to become party leader of the Greens at the weekend.

Before the federal party conference, which is so important for her, the candidate for party chairmanship has now been infected with the corona virus.

That was the result of a PCR test on Wednesday evening, Lang wrote on Twitter.

"Fortunately, I've been vaccinated three times, I'm fine and I don't feel any symptoms."

"After my first speech in the Bundestag, I drove home yesterday for a video conference and in the evening I received an e-mail with the result of the PCR test, which we carried out as standard before the party congress at the weekend to be on the safe side," wrote Lang.

In the Bundestag, Lang gave a speech during the orientation debate on compulsory corona vaccination.

She has now isolated herself at home and notified her high-risk contacts, she said.

"We know that the vaccination protects very reliably against severe courses and death, but that there is still a risk of infection, especially with omicron," wrote Lang.

"That's why I can only appeal to everyone to get vaccinated and to take care of themselves and those around them."

The Greens are holding a digital party conference on Friday and Saturday.

Only a small group of people are present in the Berlin Velodrom.

The several hundred delegates connect via the Internet.

On the second day of the event, new leadership elections will be held.

The 28-year-old social politician Lang belongs to the left wing and is running together with the 46-year-old foreign politician Omid Nouripour from the Realo wing as the new leadership duo.

Since the current leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck have been elected to the Bundestag and are taking up government offices, they must give up their party offices according to the rules of the party statutes.

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