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.