Angela Merkel refuses to go in person to a G7 summit in the United States in June, as proposed by the american president Donald Trump, due to the pandemic of sars coronavirus, said the spokesman of the German chancellor, on Friday on the website Politico.

"to this day, given the general situation of the pandemic, it may not accept a participation in person, a trip to Washington," said the american media online the spokesperson of the German government, Steffen Seibert.