coronavirus once again in the seat of
power
french president emmanuel macron has
tested positive
the elysee palace said he was showing
symptoms and would isolate for seven
days while continuing to work remotely
the french prime minister jean-claude
also quarantining after coming into
contact with mr macron
as is the spanish head of government
pedro sanchez
he's not the only world leader mr macron
has met in the last few days either he
has been busy meeting other european
leaders
so let's bring you more details and take
you straight to paris and talk to hugh
scofield we'll come on to those
other leaders in a moment hugh but first
what exactly has the lisa palace said
about president macron and
his health well i mean not not much it's
a it's a very uh
terse statement which simply states what
you've said more or less that he uh
was diagnosed today with uh with kovid
having developed symptoms
now what they're saying privately from
the press office is that
he's well it's fine that yeah which
suggests that whatever symptoms he had
they were not serious ones
uh there doesn't seem to be any kind of
alarm uh at the elise
and certainly the intention has
communicated to us is that he'll keep
working but do it in isolation
obviously um and we'll uh
cancel therefore um a trip to lebanon
that next week um and then his wife also
bridget
uh will go to self-isolation um and
we've heard it
since that the various other political
um kind of world here in france like
john cassettes like chuck
the president of the national assembly
who've met him just as
in the course of their their work they
will go decipher
self-isolation too so i mean there's
really nothing
like ordinary about this head of state
and government has
caught covered so he's going to have to
do what all the rest of us are going to
do but
of course for panics the general uh
message
is wider than just france though we're
seeing pictures of president macron
meeting the portuguese prime minister
he also met pedro sanchez charles
michelle we just
have heard also going into
self-isolation has he had a busy
period recently meeting lots of
different leaders who else could be
affected
well evidently evidently i've been
looking at his calendar so i don't i
don't
know precisely who he's been seeing
recently in general he does see a lot of
people
um and then of course with the european
very much uh on the um uh you know the
headlines with
the council meet now sweet charm
michelle president the council
and then brexit there will be ongoing uh
talks with the senior european figures i
think he saw the egyptian leaders
at the beginning of the week too
when he was over so yes
um people world leaders who've been in
france will be
um you know making sure that they they
were not in
range of the covert during that time and
then journalists like myself and you
will be
looking back through his agenda he has
been um
and uh there will be several many people
who will have to
now go into isolation including some
very important
and more broadly in france what's the
picture at the moment with infections
and deaths well i mean it's getting
better i mean france is not in the sort
of downwards
spiral that uh some european countries
seem to be in at the moment but it's not
out of them out of the woods either and
we came out of
lockdown uh on tuesday there's a general
feeling that
the second way the worst of it is over
but the figures aren't great it's still
you know 70 000
daily cases but not where we're supposed
to be at and
the idea was that around now we'd be at
5000 cases a day
so uh we we're out of uh locked down but
going into
curfew uh it's now a nightly curfew and
there's a there are third fears as in
britain
across europe that with the holiday
period people coming together again
we'll see a new surge in january
thanks so much for joining us uh from
paris so just to confirm president
macron
has covert 19 is self-isolating we've
heard from the spanish government their
prime minister
is self-isolating after meeting
president macron as
is charles michelle the eu chief and as
he was saying we will probably get news
of others
in the next few hours too more certainly
bring you up to date with that when we
do