• Venezuela.Josep Borrell, forced to give explanations to the European Parliament about his "secret mission"

The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, is

in quarantine

after testing positive a member of the delegation who recently traveled with him to

Ethiopia

, as he announced today.

"This afternoon I was informed that a member of the delegation traveling with me and @JanezLenarcic (European Emergency Response Coordinator) to Ethiopia last week has tested positive for coronavirus," Borrell wrote on his Twitter account.

The head of European diplomacy added that

he tested negative for coronavirus upon his return from Africa

last Sunday.

"I am isolating myself according to the rules and

will wait to do a second test,

" Borrell concluded in his tweet.

Borrell thus joins the list of senior European officials forced to isolate themselves for having been in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus.

For now, only the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth,

Mariya Gabriel

, has tested positive for Covid-19 in

Ursula van der Leyen's Commission team

.

Gabriel announced last Saturday that he had tested positive for coronavirus in the second test that has been carried out after being in contact with someone infected, so he is in quarantine.

The former Bulgarian MEP thus added to the long list of commissioners and community leaders who have had to quarantine and undergo PCR tests after being in contact with infected people, but all the results had been negative except for the chief negotiator for Brexit ,

Michel Barnier,

who was infected last March and has recovered.

Like Borrell, the president of the European Parliament,

David Sassoli

, is in self-isolation awaiting the results of the relevant tests for contact with a positive, and does not present symptoms.

While the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, just a week ago a preventive quarantine ended after being in contact with a positive and the president of the European Council,

Charles Michel

, even postponed a European summit in September for the same reason.

Both were negative in PCR tests.

Also the executive vice presidents of the Commission for the Economy,

Valdis Dombrovskis

, and in charge of the Green Pact,

Frans Timmermans

, as well as the Health Commissioner,

Stella Kyriakides

, have recently had to respect preventive quarantines after having been in close contact with positive cases by Covid -19.

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