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Health

EU Commission's VP Schinas has coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life Margaritis Schinas gives a press conference on EU Coronavirus Vaccination Strategy in Brussels, Belgium, October 15, 2020. Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERS

European Commission Vice President for promoting the European Way of Life Margaritis Schinas tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating.

"I have just learned that my regular scheduled COVID19 test ...came back positive. I am now self-isolating as required," Schinas said on Twitter.

FILE PHOTO: European Commissioner for Promoting the European Way of Life Margaritis Schinas speaks to the media at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, Germany September 28, 2020. Tobias Schwarz/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

(Reporting by Marine Strauss, writing by Jan Strupczewski)

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