French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for coronavirus infection. This is reported by the Elysee Palace. Macron will be in self-isolation for seven days and work remotely.
“The President of the Republic has a positive diagnosis for COVID-19 today. In accordance with the current sanitary rules applicable to everyone, the president of the republic will be isolated for seven days,”RIA Novosti quotes a message from the Elysee Palace.
On October 19, the wife of the President of France, Brigitte Macron, went into self-isolation for a week due to contact with a sick coronavirus. Analysis seven days after contact showed that she did not have COVID-19.
On December 16, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said that the first phase of the vaccination program will begin in the last week of December. Vaccinations will be done only on a voluntary basis, he stressed.
From 15 December in France from 20:00 to 06:00 there is a curfew. The prime minister of the country said that he would act on New Year's Eve as well. Cinemas, theaters and museums will be closed until at least January 7th. Jean Castex urged companies to keep the remote “wherever possible”.
According to current data from Johns Hopkins University, in France for the entire time of the pandemic, 2 million 465 thousand cases of COVID-19 were registered. The republic is in fifth place in terms of the number of diseases.]>
