The Walloon and Brussels governments are going to be quarantined as a precaution after Walloon minister Valérie De Bue and Brussels minister Sven Gatz have tested positive for the corona virus.
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The Brussels government reported on Wednesday afternoon that it is going to be quarantined as a preventive measure. She does so after it was confirmed that Brussels Minister of Finance and Education Sven Gatz is infected with the corona virus. The Brussels government members with whom Minister Gatz came into contact during the Council of Ministers on Thursday 1 October, are being tested and for the time being scrapped their official activities, his spokeswoman Eva Vanhengel reports to Belga.
The minister is showing mild symptoms of the virus and will be quarantined for two weeks as required. He will continue to work digitally and remotely, ‘says Vanhengel. The cabinet employees with whom the Minister has been in close contact for more than fifteen minutes will all undergo testing and will also be quarantined.
Friday contact in the Walloon government
Earlier today, the Walloon government announced the same quarantine measure. The reason for this was the contamination at Minister De Bue. The MR minister got her test result on Wednesday morning after being tested on Monday. On Sunday, the Minister of Tourism and Administration got the first symptoms. The entire Walloon government is quarantined as a precaution.
The Walloon minister is in good health and continues to work at home, the Walloon government reports. “The latest contacts with the government date from last Friday,” reports the cabinet of Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. ‘At Christophe Collignon’s swearing-in (became Minister of Local Authorities and Housing for PS Walloon after the appointment of Pierre-Yves Dermagne as federal minister, ed.) the ministers met. The corona measures were followed up. As a precaution, the ministers are being tested today and suspend their activities until the results are known. ‘ Tomorrow’s government meeting will take place via video call.
They are not concerned with MR. De Bue was not present at the party office or the inter-parliamentary conference on Monday due to her symptoms on Sunday. During that party office became the behavior of chairman Georges-Louis Bouchez discussed. Among other things, that was about how he pushed De Bue aside for Denis Ducarme, without thinking about the (mandatory) gender balance in the Walloon government.
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