{"id":97958,"date":"2020-10-22T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T07:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97958"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T07:04:59","slug":"german-health-minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97958","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: German health minister tests positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2020\/10\/21\/907620.JPG\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO German Health Minister Jens Spahn attends a joint news conference in Berlin Germany October 16 2020. Michael SohnPool via REUTERSFile Photo\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">German Health Minister Jens Spahn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERLIN, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German Health Minister Jens Spahn tested positive for the coronavirus, the health ministry said, adding that he had placed himself in home quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister, 40, was suffering from cold-like symptoms, the ministry said. People he had been in contact with were being informed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A government spokesman said Spahn had attended a cabinet meeting earlier on Wednesday, but other cabinet ministers would not necessarily have to go into quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The federal cabinet meets in compliance with hygiene and distance rules, which aim to ensure that even if a person who later tests corona-positive were to participate, quarantining of other or even all participants would not be necessary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Germany&#8217;s infection rates are lower than in much of Europe, they have been accelerating and hit a daily record of 7,830 on Saturday, according to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany&#8217;s federal disease prevention agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My best wishes for @jensspahn,&#8221; tweeted Europe Minister Michael Roth. &#8220;Hopefully he will be back on board soon. Healthy and committed. We need everyone and anything now in the fight against the #Corona.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spahn has urged Germans to stick to social distancing rules to keep infections at a manageable level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, he said Germans face a &#8220;test of character&#8221; to contain a surge in the number of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spahn, a popular member of Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s government, had been expected to run for the leadership of their Christian Democrats earlier this year but backed Armin Laschet, premier of Germany&#8217;s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party will pick a new leader in December. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Health Minister Jens Spahn BERLIN, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German Health Minister Jens Spahn tested positive for the coronavirus, the health ministry said, adding that he had placed himself in home quarantine. The minister, 40, was suffering from cold-like symptoms, the ministry said. People he had been in contact with were being informed. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":97960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}