Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) tested positive for Corona on Monday. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit announced that he had mild cold symptoms and immediately went into isolation in the chancellor’s apartment in the Federal Chancellery. “The public appointments this week will be cancelled, the Chancellor wants to attend internal appointments and the scheduled meeting with the Prime Ministers of the federal states virtually.”
The Chancellor returned on Sunday from a two-day trip abroad to the Persian Gulf. There he had negotiated, among other things, new gas and oil supplies and met the controversial Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh. Before starting the trip, he had done a PCR test, which was negative; According to information from government circles, on Sunday he had tested negative again.