French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive.

ELISA Palace said he was showing symptoms and would isolate for seven days while continuing to work remotely.

Thief French Prime Minister Jean Cast X also quarantining after coming into contact with Mr Macron, as is thes Spanish head of government Pedro Sanchez.

He's not the only world leader Mr Macron has met in the last few days, either.

He has been busy meeting other European leaders.

So let's bring you more details and take you straight to Paris and talk to Hugh Scofield will come on to those other leaders in a moment.

Hubert first.

What exactly has the lease a palace said about President Macron and his health?

Well, I mean not not much.

It's a It's a very terse statement, which simply states what you've said, more or less that he was diagnosed today with co vid having developed symptoms.

Now what they're saying privately from the press office is that he's well, it's fine.

Yeah, we suggest that whatever sentence he had, they were not serious ones.

That doesn't seem to be any kind of alarm at the day, and certainly three intention has communicated to us is that he will keep working, but do it in isolation.

Obviously, uh, and well canceled.

Therefore, a trip to Lebanon next week on Ben.

His wife also predict, uh, self isolation on, but we've heard it since then.

Various other political, um, kind of world who, like John cast X like shut that the president of the National Assembly who met him just in the course of their their work.

They will go decide that I self isolation too.

So I mean, there's nothing extraordinary about head of state and government has caught coded, so he's gonna have to do what all the rest of us is going to do.

But of course, the panic General message Que the neck is wider than just France, though We're seeing pictures off President Macron meeting the Portuguese prime minister, he also met Pedro Sanchez.

Charles Michelle.

We just have heard also going into self isolation.

Has he had a busy period recently meeting lots of different leaders?

Who else could be affected?

Evident?

Evidently I I've been looking at his calendar, so I don't know precisely who has been seen recently.

Always in generally does see a lot of people on then, of course, with the European very much on the you know the headlines with council meeting last week, Michelle President, Council on the Brexit There will be ongoing talks with senior European things.

I think you saw the Egyptian leader didn't see see at the beginning of the week to, and he was over.

So yes, uh, world leaders superior process will be, um, making sure that they were not in a range of the Kobe during that time.

And then journalists like myself and you will be looking back through his agenda.

So he has on board.

There will be several many people who will have to now go into isolation, including some very Hugh.

More broadly in Franz.

What's the picture at the moment, with infections and deaths?

Well, it's getting better in France is not in the sort of downwards spiral that some European countries seem to be in the moment, but it's not out of the out of the woods.

Either way came out of lock down on Tuesday.

There's a general feeling that second way.

Worst of it is over.

But the things aren't great.

It's still you know 70,000 daily cases, not where we're supposed to be at.

The idea was that around now would be a 5000 patients a day, so way looked at getting into curfew.

Now a nightly curfew on there's a There are certain fears, as in Britain as across Europe, with the holiday period people coming together again, we'll see a new surge in January.

Thanks so much for joining us from Paris.

So just to confirm President Macron has covered 19 itself.

Isolating.

We've heard from the Spanish government.

Their prime minister is self isolating after meeting President Macron as Charles Michele, the U chief.

And as you were saying, we will probably get news of others in the next few hours to will certainly bring you up to date with that when we do.