Your doctor tested positive – Merkel in quarantine – domestic policy

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) now has to put herself in quarantine in the corona crisis.

Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.

After her press appearance in the evening, the chancellor was informed that she had contact with a doctor on Friday, who had meanwhile been tested positive for the corona virus.

The press release states: “The Chancellor then decided to immediately quarantine at home. It will be tested regularly over the next few days, because a test would not yet be fully meaningful. The Chancellor will also do her business from home quarantine. ”

Merkel had given a press conference the evening after a phone call to the country’s prime ministers about contact restrictions regarding the corona virus. The federal and state governments had decided that collections of more than two people should be prohibited in public across Germany. Relatives who live in their own household are excluded.

Merkel was still talking about her behavior

In the press conference, BILD explicitly asked her about her own behavior in the times of Corona. Your answer:

“I canceled almost all appointments when people come here, to the chancellery or where I would go to see people. My life has also changed fundamentally and essentially consists of telephone and video conferences. The European Council does not take place, there are no trips, I am not going anywhere in Germany if I would otherwise visit – that is not applicable, ”said Merkel.

They will now have to make the telephone and video conferences from home. “But”, as CDU veteran Wolfgang Bosbach (67) commented at BILD Live, “the Chancellor is not on the moon.” She can also work from home without problems, there are sufficient technical options for this.

She was still shopping on Saturday

Angela Merkel was still shopping herself for the weekend – in the supermarket “Hit Ullrich” on Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. First it went to the vegetable shelves, then to the delicatessen.

She filled the shopping cart herself, put the goods (including morello morello, soap, toilet paper) on the conveyor belt of cash register 1 – and paid with the card.

Scholz also did the test

A few days ago, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz temporarily went into quarantine at home from the cabinet. A test then showed that he was not infected with the corona virus.

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