You are currently viewing French cabinet to meet virtually after PM’s Covid contact

French cabinet to meet virtually after PM’s Covid contact

  • Post author:
  • Post category:Europe / Health / Politics
  • Post last modified:10/09/2020
  • Reading time:1 mins read

PARIS: France’s cabinet will Wednesday hold its weekly meeting remotely for the first time since the end of the virus lockdown, after Prime Minister Jean Castex spent part of the weekend with the boss of the Tour de France who tested positive for Covid-19.
Castex tested negative for the coronavirus in an initial test but is, in line with official guidance, self-isolating at his official Paris Matignon residence for seven days, his office said.
Castex was in the car of Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme as they followed the eighth stage of the race on Saturday.
Prudhomme, who is asymptomatic, must now leave the race for a week to go into quarantine.

Newspakistan.tv | YouTube Channel

Tags:

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.