VS’is Olivier Véran’s turn to be affected by the Covid-19. The Minister of Health tested positive Thursday, January 13. Present the day before in the morning at the Council of Ministers, Olivier Véran had been warned in the afternoon to be in contact via the TousAntiCovid application and had undergone a first negative test. “Given the appearance of mild symptoms this afternoon, he tested again, positive this time. He also confirmed his self-test with a positive antigen test, ”says one within his ministry.
Olivier Véran spoke Thursday morning at the platform of the National Assembly, for the adoption of the resolution carried by LFI deputies recognizing endometriosis as a long-term disease (ALD). Above all, he had to carry the bill establishing the vaccine pass, voted on the night of Wednesday to Thursday at first reading in the Senate and currently studied in a joint committee (CMP) at the Palais-Bourbon, so that deputies and senators try to s’ agree on a common version of the text. “As the protocol requires, being vaccinated three doses, he will respect isolation and continue to work from the private quarters of his ministry, where he resides,” said his services.
I have just tested positive for Covid.
As a result, I put myself in solitary confinement and continued to perform my duties from a distance.
– Olivier Véran (@olivierveran) January 13, 2022
Contaminated Castex Jean
The surge in cases in France is due, as in the rest of Europe, to the spread of the Omicron variant, which is much more contagious than the Delta. The government team is not spared by this multiplication of contaminations. Last December, the Minister for Foreign Trade Franck Riester announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19, in a message posted on his Twitter account. It was the second time he had contracted the virus: he had already tested positive for the new coronavirus when he was Minister of Culture, in March 2020.
A few days earlier, her colleague in charge of Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, had also announced that she had tested positive, although asymptomatic, and had isolated herself. For his part, Jean Castex had also been infected by his 11-year-old daughter. Several times in contact, the Prime Minister was then tested positive for the first time in November and placed in solitary confinement.