The Prime Minister Jean Castex tested positive for Covid -19, Matignon announcement this Monday evening. The head of government was declared a contact case after one of his 11-year-old daughters tested positive.
The head of government is forced into isolation and led the meeting scheduled for Monday around the elected officials of Guadeloupe by videoconference.
Jean Castex had already been in contact on three occasions: in September 2020 during the Tour de France after sharing the car of the director of the competition, Christian Prudhomme, a second time following a dinner with Emmanuel Macron in December, then in June, after his wife contracted the disease. The head of government, who received two doses of the vaccine, had never tested positive.