Mr Macron, 42, will self-separate for seven days while working distantly, the Elysée Palace said in an explanation.
The French president went to various prominent occasions lately, including an EU highest point.
Following his analysis a few other European pioneers, including the Spanish PM, said they would self-seclude.
“The President of the Republic has been analyzed positive for Covid-19 today,” the Elysée said on Thursday morning. The finding was made after a “test performed at the beginning of the primary indications”, the assertion added.
The French president’s better half Brigitte Macron, who is 67, is self-segregating yet has no indications.
It isn’t yet known how Mr Macron got the infection yet his office said it was distinguishing any new close contacts he has had.
On Tuesday President Macron facilitated French parliamentary heads and on Monday individuals from the intergovernmental bunch the OECD.
A week ago he, alongside pretty much every other EU pioneer, gone to a highest point in Brussels.
Who else needs to self-confine?
Among those going into self-disconnection are European Council boss Charles Michel, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, every one of whom met President Macron this week.
Mr Sanchez has tried negative yet, similar to Mr Macron, will work distantly from isolate.
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, 59, has dropped every official outing, and is confining and anticipating test results, after a working lunch in Paris with President Macron on Wednesday.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel too are self-separating following contact with the French president.
In a proclamation Mr Bettel wished Mr Macron a “quick recuperation”.
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin has tried pessimistic for Covid-19 yet will restrict his contacts, a representative said.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex, 55, and parliamentary speaker Richard Ferrand, 58, are likewise self-confining, their workplaces affirmed.
Mr Castex, who isn’t demonstrating any manifestations and has tried negative, was expected to present the public authority’s Covid immunization strategy in the Senate on Thursday – presently Health Minister Olivier Véran is doing it all things considered.
France this week finished a six-week public lockdown, supplanting the measure with a time limitation to assist manage taking off cases.
Mr Macron a week ago went to a two-day European Council heads of state culmination, completing on Friday.
Nonetheless, the French president is considered to have gotten conceivably infectious as of Monday night, a senior EU official told the BBC.
All sterile measures were seen during a week ago’s gathering and the committee has not been educated regarding some other members testing positive, the source added.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wore a cover at the culmination and tried negative for the infection on Tuesday, German authorities said subsequent to hearing the report about President Macron.
A French official representative affirmed that all of Mr Macron’s approaching outings, remembering a planned visit to Lebanon for 22 December, had been dropped.
The Elysée is doing everything to extend a picture of the same old thing. As of now President Macron is once again grinding away, and a gathering with his money and unfamiliar priests has proceeded as arranged – however with the guests in a contiguous room.
It’s being underscored that the operations of government have just been drastically adjusted for Covid – with video gatherings now the standard – so except if the president gets ugly nobody will see a very remarkable distinction.
Also, in the interim – similarly as with any common resident – the follow and-test framework has kicked in, and various dignitaries unfamiliar and homegrown have been told the awful news that they need to self-seclude.
The message is clear: Emmanuel Macron might be the leader of France – yet for the motivations behind the infection he is a human like some other. So he will carry on as per the principles.
-BBC
