Thursday, July 8th, 2021
After breathing difficulties due to Covid
Luxembourg’s premier leaves hospital
At first it looks like a mild Covid-19 course, then Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Bettel will have to be hospitalized because of low oxygen saturation in the blood. After four days of treatment, he is so well again that he goes into quarantine at home.
The Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, who had Covid-19, has left the hospital. There is an “improvement in his health,” said the government. The 48-year-old will resume work in the home office on Friday. He will remain in quarantine until the end of the week. On Monday, Bettel’s condition had been described as “serious but stable”. He suffered from breathing difficulties, but did not have to be artificially ventilated, as the AFP news agency learned from Bettel’s office.
In the hospital, Bettel was diagnosed with “insufficient oxygen saturation”, the government said. Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna had meanwhile been charged with “ensuring the continuation of government business as best as possible”. The head of government was hospitalized on Sunday. He had previously gone into ten-day quarantine on June 27, after testing positive for the corona virus after the EU summit in Brussels at the end of June.
According to his spokeswoman, the 26 other heads of state and government were not classified as contact persons. In Luxembourg, close contact is when there is contact with an infected person for at least 15 minutes without protective measures such as a mask or a minimum distance. At the EU summit, the hygiene measures were observed, said the spokeswoman. On May 6th, Bettel had received the first corona vaccination with the vaccine from Astrazeneca, the second dose had not yet been administered to him.
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