French president tests positive for COVID-19 after meetings with European leaders

Paris, December 17 (RHC)-- French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for coronavirus, after reporting unspecified symptoms of COVID-19.  Macron met in recent days with the prime ministers of Spain and Portugal, as well as the European Council in Brussels and members of the French Cabinet. 

France reported its biggest one-day spike in COVID-19 cases in nearly a month on Wednesday, just days after relaxing a nationwide lockdown.

In other COVID news from Brazil, the South American giant recorded over 70,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday — a new daily record.  This brings Brazil’s confirmed cases to over 7 million, with an official death toll of 184,000, the second-worst toll in the world after the United States.