ZAGREB, November 29, 2020 – The head of the prime minister’s office, Zvonimir Frka-Petesic, said on Sunday PM Andrej Plenkovic was self-isolating from his wife, who has coronavirus, and their children, adding that he had no symptoms, was continuing to do his job and that the government was working normally.
Plenkovic has been self-isolating since Saturday, when his wife tested positive. His test came back negative.
“The government is working normally. This morning we had two meetings via video link,” Frka-Petesic told the press.
He said the prime minister would participate in Monday’s cabinet meeting via video link and that as far as he knew, nothing would be cancelled and that all meetings would be virtual.
Asked if the prime minister would get tested again, he said he would when epidemiologists decided that it was necessary.
Vukovar incident condemned
Frka-Petesic also commented on an incident which occurred in a Vukovar bar in the early hours of Saturday, involving the state secretary at the Veterans Ministry, Stjepan Sucic, who violated anti-COVID measures.
“Of course we condemn such an unfortunate event. We regret that something like that happened at a time when epidemiological measures have been prescribed for all of us. There can be no excuse for violating them, notably by government officials who must lead by example,” he said, adding that the cabinet would discuss the matter on Monday and “adopt the appropriate decisions.”
Asked if Sucic would be sacked, Frka-Petesic it would be considered tomorrow.
He denied that the government had intervened with the Vukovar police station last night. “I know nothing about that. This is a very suggestive question. I don’t believe something like that is possible.”
Police found Sucic and several other persons in a Vukovar bar in the early hours of Saturday, just after a ban on the work of hospitality establishments went into force. County police said yesterday that two men were arrested for disorderly conduct. Media reported that one of them was Sucic and the other the director of the Homeland War Memorial Centre in Vukovar, Krunoslav Seremet.
