Posted on 10/15/2020 10:50:11 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
BRUSSELS (AP) — As a renewed wave of the coronavirus sweeps across much of Europe, the reality of the disease struck a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday when one of the 27-nation bloc’s top officials abandoned the meeting to go into self-imposed quarantine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen left the summit venue in Brussels shortly after the meeting began because one of her close staffers tested positive for COVID-19.
“I myself have tested negative,” von der Leyen, a doctor by training, tweeted. “However, as a precaution I am immediately leaving the European Council to go into self-isolation.”
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I assume no murderous vituperative diatribes on Democratic Underground, unlike when Trump caught the bug.
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