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Macron working from retreat after catching Covid
18 Dec 2020 - 15:11
French President Emmanuel Macron, tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen on a screen as he attends by video conference a round table for the National Humanitarian Conference (NHC) at the Foreign Ministry in Paris on December 17, 2020. AFP / Pool / Charles Platiau
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Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron was Friday working in self-isolation from an official residence outside Paris after he tested positive for Covid-19.
The announcement Thursday that Macron was infected with the virus upended political schedules in France and across Europe, with EU leaders and French officials he had met in the last days cancelling events and rushing into self-isolation.
Macron tests positive as Europe battles virus surge
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December 18, 2020
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron became the latest head of state to test positive for coronavirus on Thursday, forcing several other European leaders into quarantine as the continent struggles with a winter surge in infections.
With Europe now approaching 500,000 deaths since Covid-19 first emerged a year ago, the EU has pledged to start vaccination campaigns across the bloc by the end of the year in a bid to curb the spread of the disease. With inoculations seen as the only way to bring the global pandemic to an end, American experts were set to discuss Thursday if US pharma company Moderna’s vaccine should be authorised the latest to seek approval after the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.
Fri 18th December 2020 | 01:50 AM
Paris, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Dec, 2020 ) :A host of European leaders and top French officials rushed into isolation on Thursday after President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for Covid-19, upending political agendas across the continent.
A flurry of contact-tracing followed France s confirmation that Macron had become the latest world leader to contract Covid-19, following the likes of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump.
Macron, 42, was tested after the onset of the first symptoms and will now self isolate for seven days in accordance with national regulations, his office said in a statement.