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Angela Merkel tests negative in first coronavirus screening

By Zach Halaschak
Published March 23, 2020 7:57pm ET
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Angela Merkel tests negative in first coronavirus screening
18 March 2020, North Rhine-Westphalia, Oberhausen: People watch the TV speech of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in a living room in Oberhausen. The Chancellor is talking about the coronavirus pandemic. | (Fabian Strauch/AP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is currently self-quarantining, tested negative on her first coronavirus test.

Merkel, 65, self-quarantined on Sunday after her doctor tested positive for the flu-like virus. Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said that she would receive daily tests, the first of which turned up negative.

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