Slovakia Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Friday that he had tested positive for Covid-19, a week after he attended an EU summit in Brussels.
The summit is believed to be where Franch President Emmanuel Macron contracted the virus, resulting in the self-isolation of European leaders and top French officials, reports Al Jazeera.
“Today, I am one of you,” Igor Matovic wrote on his Facebook page, attaching a screenshot of his test results.
The 47-year-old premier added that he was spending the Christmas holidays helping out at a hospital. “Now my plans likely to be a little different,” he said.
Slovakia’s press department told AFP that Matovic had tested positive on Thursday and had since canceled all his events.
Local media reported that the government had called on all ministers and state secretaries to get tested in response.
Deputy Prime Minister Veronika Remisova and Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad later announced that they were also infected.
Macron and Matovic are the latest heads of state and government around the world to contract the coronavirus, following the likes of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump.Since the pandemic erupted, Slovakia has registered more than 146,000 confirmed infections, including nearly 4,000 new cases. More than 1,400 people have died from the virus in the country of 5.4 million people, including 62 people on Thursday. Source: c
