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Angela Merkel has to be quarantined

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in the corona crisis now has to move into domestic quarantine issue. That shared Government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Sunday evening in Berlin With.

The chancellor had been informed after her press appearance in the evening that she had contact with a doctor on Friday, who is now positive for the Corona virus had been tested.

“Even from the domestic quarantine the Chancellor will hold her Official business follow up, “emphasized Seibert.

According to the current state of knowledge, this means specifically: whether Merkel even Covid-19 lung disease is unclear. The quarantine is a precautionary measure.

“Waiver and sacrifice”

Before that, the Chancellor still had the Germans in her statement on “renunciation and sacrifice” in the fight against that Corona virus called. Public life and social contacts would need to be further reduced through new distance rules and closings, said Merkel. “This is how we save lives.”

The doctor, who had meanwhile been tested positively and with whom the Chancellor had contact on Friday, vaccinated the 65-year-old prophylactically against pneumococci.

No contact

The Federal government and the countries agreed on Sunday No contact notified for more than two people. Three or more people may no longer meet, core families are exempt from the ban. This should apply from Monday, like Armin Laschet (CDU), the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia explained.

On No contactAccording to the common argument of the federal and state governments, an interruption of the infection chain is more proportionate and more successful than a ban on going out.

That should be enforced No contact from the regulatory offices and the police become. Minor violations can result in fines of up to 25,000 euros, and serious violations will be prosecuted.

Merz has corona virus

It was only on Tuesday that the former Union faction leader and candidate for the CDU chairmanship, Friedrich Merz, who is considered the Chancellor’s internal adversary, announced a positive Covid 19 test. The 64-year-old too Merz is located in his hometown in North Rhine-Westphalia just at home quarantine.

On Tuesday, the Union politician reported “luckily only mild to moderate symptoms”. Wrote on Wednesday Merz then on Twitter, the symptoms have become a little stronger.

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