According to a government communiqué, on Tuesday the minister had taken his second test linked to his having been “in prolonged contact” with another individual after they had been found positive for the virus. Although the Tuesday test yield a positive result, the first test Turmes took linked to that contact was negative.  He has “immediately started a preventative quarantine at home”, the ministry states. 

Given this self-quarantine, “there is no risk... that he has infected other people,” adds the ministry. 

Turmes’ isolation will last until earliest 8 October, but he is said currently to be symptom-free and “doing well”.