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Moldovan prime minister contracts coronavirus, adviser says

Moldova's Prime Minister Ion Chicu has contracted the novel coronavirus, his adviser Boris Harea wrote on Facebook late on Tuesday.

Reuters WORLD
Published December 09,2020
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Ion Chicu, Moldova's newly appointed Prime Minister, speaks in Chisinau, Moldova November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Vladislav Culiomza/File Photo

"The Prime Minister will run the government remotely," he said.

Chicu had a working meeting with the outgoing President Igor Dodon and the parliamentary speaker Zinaida Greceanii on Monday.

There have been 119,204 coronavirus cases and 2,460 deaths in the eastern European country, which has a total population of 3.5 million people.

Chicu was appointed as head of a Socialist party-backed minority government in November 2019.

Maia Sandu, the pro-European Union leader who defeated Dodon in last month's presidential election, is pushing to hold a snap parliamentary election.