Franck Riester is doing
well and resting at home, health minister Olivier Veran said on BFM Television.
France’s culture minister
has become the latest politician to be infected by the coronavirus, a
government colleague said on Monday, after several lawmakers came down with the
COVID-19 illness.
Five French
parliamentarians have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to media
reports on Monday, along with a worker in the National Assembly cafeteria where
some or all of the lawmakers may have picked it up.
Riester may have caught the
virus from one of the five parliamentarians, culture ministry sources said. The
stricken minister last met President Emmanuel Macron several days ago, they
added.
The chief executive of
state-controlled Paris airport operator ADP (ADP.PA), Augustin de Romanet, has
also tested positive for the virus and is working from home, a spokesman said
earlier.
No other government
officials are known to have caught the coronavirus, health minister Veran said,
adding that cabinet colleagues had been observing the recommendations they have
issued to the public.
“Nobody has been shaking
hands in cabinet meetings for the last two weeks,” he said.
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