LISBON, Feb 2 (NNN-Xinhua) — Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa has tested positive for COVID-19, his cabinet said Tuesday.
“The Prime Minister carried out a routine COVID-19 self-test today, having a positive result. This result has already been confirmed by an antigen test,” the cabinet said in a statement.
Costa is symptom-free and will be in isolation for seven days, it said.
Costa has spent the last two weeks on an electoral campaign, with rallies and street actions with supporters for last Sunday’s legislative elections, in which his Socialist Party won with an absolute majority.
Portugal recorded 50,888 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, raising the national tally to 2,690,690 since the start of the pandemic, according to a bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
Moldova’s Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita
CHISINAU: Moldova’s Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita said late Tuesday that she was tested positive for COVID-19.
“Today I performed a PCR test for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus, which turned out to be positive,” she wrote in her social media account, adding that she will work at home, online, in the next few days.
In the last 24 hours, 4,348 cases were confirmed after testing 13,988 samples in the country, according to the Health Ministry.
The confirmed infections have totaled 445,046 in the 3.5-million-population country.
2,690,690 since the start of the pandemic, according to a bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS). — NNN-XINHUA
