German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has contracted the coronavirus, his spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told the dpa news agency.

Scholz has mild symptoms, he said, and immediately self-isolated. He has canceled all public appearances this week, but plans to participate virtually in internal government meetings, Hebestreit said.

Scholz returned from a two-day official trip to the Gulf States on Sunday, and before that he was at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.