Canceling the German Prime Minister’s business appointments due to the corona virus

– International news – Tasnim News Agency According to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” newspaper, Olaf Schultz, the Prime Minister of Germany, has contracted Corona again. On Monday, he announced on Platform X that he had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Stephen Hebstreet, a government spokesman, said the chancellor would not attend any public meetings on Monday and Tuesday. A reception scheduled for Tuesday for Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was also canceled.

This was clearly not a surprise, Schultz wrote about the result of his experiment. Government spokesman Hebstreet said the chancellor was “in his office” and there “on his own”. According to him, he makes phone calls, video conferences are held, but there is no direct personal contact. Wolfgang Schmidt, the chief of staff of the German chancellor, was also scheduled to launch the “cultural integration initiative” on Monday afternoon. Instead of Schultz, let him manage. The participation of the Prime Minister of Germany in the meetings on Wednesday is still unknown. He may be able to join it via video. The German government spokesman also confirmed that the chancellor received a booster vaccine against the coronavirus this year.

Schultz was first infected with the virus in September 2022. At that time, he suffered only mild symptoms and spent the quarantine period in his apartment in the Chancellery.

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