After the Prime Minister at the end of November, it is the turn of another member of the government to catch the virus. Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister Delegate in charge of Industry announced on her Twitter account that she had tested positive for Covid-19 and therefore placed herself in isolation. However, she announced that she would continue to perform her ministerial duties, but “from a distance”.
According to his firm, “the minister has no symptoms and is doing well”. “She will ensure her next appointments remotely by phone and videoconference”, says the same source. At the end of November, it was Prime Minister Jean Castex who had tested positive for Covid-19, after according to him having been in contact with his 11-year-old daughter, who was also positive. He had also continued to perform his duties while in solitary confinement.
This contamination announcement comes as France is facing a fifth wave, in the midst of the end of the year holiday season. On Sunday, the recorded incidence rate reached its highest level since the start of the epidemic, with 530.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In addition, the country fears, like the rest of Europe, a new acceleration in the number of infections with the arrival of the Omicron variant, much more contagious than the Delta variant, which however still remains dominant in France.