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		</div><p>French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, the presidential Elysee Palace announced.</p>
<p>It said the president took a test “as soon as the first symptoms appeared”.</p>
<p>The brief statement did not say what symptoms Mr Macron experienced.</p>
<p>It said he would isolate for seven days, adding: “He will continue to work and take care of his activities at a distance.”</p>
<p>It is not immediately clear what contact tracing efforts are in progress.</p>
<p>Mr Macron attended a European Union summit at the end of last week, where he notably had a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.</p>
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<p>He met the prime minister of Portugal on Wednesday.</p>
<p>There was no immediate comment from Portuguese officials.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sorry to hear my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmmanuelMacron</a> has tested positive for coronavirus. We are all wishing you a speedy recovery.</p>
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<p>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had Covid-19 earlier in the year, tweeted his support for the French president.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson said: “Sorry to hear my friend @EmmanuelMacron has tested positive for coronavirus. We are all wishing you a speedy recovery.”</p>
<p>He then repeated the message in French.</p>
<p>Mr Macron also held the French government’s weekly Cabinet meeting on Wednesday in the presence of Prime Minister Jean Castex and other ministers.</p>
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<p>Mr Castex’s office said the prime minister is also self-isolating for seven days.</p>
<p>The French presidency confirmed Mr Macron’s trip to Lebanon scheduled for next week is being cancelled.</p>
<p>Mr Macron and other government officials have repeatedly said they have been sticking to strict sanitary protocols during the pandemic, including not shaking hands, wearing a mask and keeping distance from other people.</p>
<p>The president is following French health authorities’ recommendations that since September have reduced the self-isolation time from 14 days to seven.</p>
<p>Authorities said at the time this is the period when there is the greatest risk of contagion and that reducing it allows better enforcement of the measure.</p>
<p>French health authorities argued this week that the 14-day quarantine was not well-respected by many in the country who considered it too long.</p>
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