Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Budenbender, the German Presidency announced earlier yesterday.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that she was diagnosed positive for Covid-19 today, clarifying that US President Joe Biden also underwent a test today, which came back negative.
I had two meetings yesterday, keeping a measure of social distance, with the president and no contact is considered, Psaki explained in a press release on the eve of Joe Biden's departure for a long-awaited trip to Europe.
Meanwhile, a dramatic increase in cases is being recorded in South Korea, where 490,881 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were recorded on Tuesday and 291 patients succumbed, recording the second highest number since the pandemic began in the country.
Authorities are warning that the current wave of the pandemic, attributed to the Omicron variant, will peak later this month.
An outbreak of cases is also being recorded in Germany, where 283,732 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 19,278,143, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the country's epidemiological surveillance body. The deaths of 329 patients due to complications of COVID-19 raised the country's death toll from the pandemic of the new coronavirus to 127,522.
In France, the largest increase in Covid-19 cases since last February was recorded yesterday, with 180.777 new infections, with the new spike attributed to pupils returning to class after a two-week holiday.
[/P][BR][BR]Health Minister Olivier Veran expects the number of Covid-19 cases to fall by the end of the month. The vast majority of anti-pandemic restrictions have been lifted in France.
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