The minister has announced on Twitter that he was in place for isolation and continued to perform his duties.
Le Monde with AFP
Olivier Véran has been tested positive at COVID-19 Thursday, January 13, announced the Minister of Health on Twitter. “I put myself isolation and continues to perform my duties at a distance,” he wrote on the social network. The minister conducted a test after “the appearance of light symptoms”, announced his entourage at the France-Presse agency.
I have just been tested positive at COVID.
As a result, I put myself in isolation and continues to perform my remote functions.
Wednesday night, 361,719 new cases have been confirmed in France. The average daily contamination over the last seven days, which makes it possible to smooth the differences and the number of cases, reached 287,603, against 198 200 a week ago.
The French hospitals currently have 23,889 patients with COVID-19, of which 2,806 were admitted in twenty-four hours. The number of patients also continues to increase in critical care, which deal with the most serious cases, particularly in resuscitation, with 3,985 patients, including 381 new admissions.