BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel's first coronavirus test came back negative, her spokesperson said on Monday.

"The test result of today's test is negative," Germany's government spokesperson Steffen Seibert told the German press agency DPA in Berlin. "Further tests will be carried out in the next few days."


A single negative test result does not necessarily mean a person is not carrying the virus, as the specimen might have been collected at a very early stage of the infection.