Herbert Reul: Corona infection confirmed by NRW interior minister

Herbert Reul
Corona infection confirmed by NRW interior minister

Herbert Reul at an appearance in Cologne

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The PCR test was also positive: the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul, was infected with the corona virus.

On Monday it became known that the CDU politician Herbert Reul (68) went into quarantine at home after a corona rapid test had turned out positive. A PCR test has now confirmed that the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia was infected with the virus, as reported by the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" among others.

According to media reports on Monday, the politician should be doing "well under the circumstances". Reul is the first minister of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government to be infected with the corona virus. According to the report, he was at a press conference in Cologne on Thursday, so several people present are said to have gone into isolation.

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