Luxembourg’s prime minister, Xavier Bettel, has been admitted to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 last week, local media have reported, citing a statement from his office. Multiple outlets said Bettel, 48, attended hospital as a precautionary measure on Sunday morning. Unless doctors advised otherwise, he was due to spend 24 hours under observation while “additional tests and analyses” were carried out. Luxembourg’s first – and Europe’s third – openly gay prime minister, Bettel played a high-profile role at the summit amid strong criticism of a new law in Hungary banning materials seen as promoting homosexuality or gender change in schools. He said before the summit he intended to challenge Hungary’s hardline prime minister, Viktor Orbán, during the meeting.

Source: The Guardian July 04, 2021 16:20 UTC