Angela Merkel has for the first time officially, with a mouth-nose protection against the Coronavirus is from the photograph. In the picture, the Chancellor is seen with a black mask with the Logo of the German EU-presidency. She stands next to the Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff (CDU), who wears a mask with the Signet of the state Chancellery of Saxony-Anhalt. I took the photo on Thursday evening at the preparatory meeting for the countries of the Union before the Federal Council meeting held in the state representation of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Berlin. Also to the meeting of the Federal Council, Merkel appeared on Friday with a mouth-nose protection.
The issue of Merkel and Anti-Corona-mask had already played on Monday on the sidelines of the visit of the French President, Emmanuel Macron at Schloss Meseberg, North of Berlin, a role.
A journalist had there want the Chancellor to know why you’ve never seen them with a mask. Merkel had replied: “If I follow the rules of the distance, I do not need to put on the mask. And if I fail to comply, you and I go to the shop, then we don’t meet, obviously.“ Then it had made Merkel a little more exciting and said: “There are also other occasions is give, where I will surely be see with the mask.”
