The Elysee Palace broadcast reassuring news from the head of state. 48 hours after the announcement of his Covid-19 infection, Emmanuel Macron presents "a stable state of health". The clinical examinations were, moreover,"reassuring", can we read in a press release from Doctor Jean-Christophe Perrochon, chief physician of the Presidency of the Republic.
Emmanuel Macron himself spoke on December 18, 2020 to reassure the French. "I'm fine, I have the same symptoms as yesterday, fatigue, headaches, a dry cough like hundreds of thousands of you who had to live with this virus"he said on Twitter before adding, warning: "The virus can affect anyone, I am very protected, I respect barrier gestures, I wear the mask, I use gel and despite everything, I have been contaminated. If I had not respected the barrier gestures, I would have caught it much faster and transmitted in the previous hours to more people."
Emmanuel Macron, more tired than he looks?
However, a source close to the French president does not quite corroborate these statements. This friend of Emmanuel Macron gave more details about his state of health to our colleagues from Parisian, in the December 19, 2020 edition. For him, the head of state seems "a little tired". "I noticed that he still read my texts but that he responds less quickly", specifies this witness to support his point. However, Emmanuel Macron does not derogate from his obligations. "He responds to the many messages of support sent by foreign heads of state", we also read. Quarantine clearly does not rhyme with vacation; the president continues to officiate. "He holds meetings until very late at night, report again The Parisian according to these testimonies. Should we expect a president who is managing an exceptional crisis to do nothing more? I do not believe that. When France was totally confined, during the first wave last spring, he himself never stopped saying thathe would continue to be in the field on the front line."
– Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 18, 2020
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