France's Macron blames his COVID-19 on negligence, bad luck French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed his COVID-19 on a combination of negligence and bad luckPARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday blamed his COVID-19 on a combination of negligence and bad luck, urging his compatriots to stay safe as critics called out slip-ups in his behavior to prevent infection, from a close-quarters handshake to repeated big-group meals over the past week. “Despite everything I caught this virus — perhaps, doubtless, a moment of negligence, a moment of bad luck, too," he said. A fellow European leader who spent time with Macron at an EU summit last week, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic, tested positive for the virus Friday. Ten other leaders at the EU summit have since tested negative; others either aren’t getting tested or haven’t released results. The French health minister suggested that Macron might have been infected at the EU summit in Brussels last week, but Macron had multiple meetings in Paris as well.

Source: ABC News December 18, 2020 09:03 UTC