ZAGREB, July 14, 2020 – Croatian Institute of Public Health director Krunoslav Capak said on Tuesday that if Education Minister Blazenka Divjak tested positive for coronavirus, the other government members would not have to self-isolate because they all wore masks at a meeting on Monday.
All Science and Education Ministry staff, including Divjak, were instructed by epidemiologists today to self-isolate and get tested because the ministry’s state secretary Ivana Franic tested positive.
Yesterday Divjak and all ministers attended a meeting of the national council for the introduction of the euro chaired by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.
“Divjak herself and other staff must self-isolate. Some have already been tested and the results will be known by evening,” Capak said at a press conference of the national COVID-19 response team.
Asked if Franic had attended a wedding and breached self-isolation,, he said, “I know there was a big gathering, but I don’t know if it was a wedding… I can’t answer if their self-isolation was breached.”
No increase in infections after the election
Capak said there had been no increase in coronavirus cases after the July 5 parliamentary election.
Capak: If Czech tourists have been infected here, we’ll communicate that
He said it had not been confirmed that the Czech tourists who claimed they were infected in Croatia were indeed infected here. If they were, we’ll communicate that, he added.
Capak said a Serbian citizen was repatriated and that he was tested in Pula the day he arrived, and that a family who arrived from Sweden were infected in Sweden and were self-isolating in Pula.
He said an infected Macedonian family was in Zadar County and would stay there until they recovered, and that a positive British citizen was in Split but that it was not known where or when he was infected.
