A German official revealed on Monday that Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has tested negative for coronavirus.
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said the tests revealed that she did not contract the COVID-19.
Seibert added that Merkel would undergo further tests during the upcoming days.
"Further tests will be carried out in the next few days," he told German news agency DPA.
Merkel has gone into self-quarantine on Sunday due to earlier contact with a doctor who had tested positive for coronavirus.
Merkel’s spokesman said she was informed about the doctor’s test shortly after holding a news conference on Sunday announcing new measures to halt the spread of the virus.
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Seibert clarified that the German Chancellor had received a precautionary vaccine on Friday against pneumococcal infection.
On Wednesday, March 11, WHO declared that the coronavirus, which is spreading around the world, a “global pandemic; however, it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.
According to the organization, the number of the COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.
“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.
“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.
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