Two foreign ministers test positive for COVID-19 after EU meeting

The foreign ministers of Austria and Belgium have both tested positive for coronavirus after attending a meeting with European Union colleagues this week. Other foreign ministers attending this meeting have reported negative results for their COVID-19 tests.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and Belgium's Sophie Wilmes sat next to each other during a group breakfast at the meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Monday in Luxembourg, Austria's Foreign Ministry said.

"It is suspected that Schallenberg might have been infected at the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday," a spokeswoman for his ministry said in a statement, adding that he did not have symptoms and had been tested as a routine measure.

Wilmes said on Saturday she had tested positive, a day after going into self-isolation with suspected symptoms of COVID-19.

"Contamination probably occurred within my family circle, given the precautions taken outside my home," she tweeted.

(With input from agencies)