London, 11th March: As per the reports of Baaghi TV, a UK Health Minister working for the British PM Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries has been tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday evening shortly after meeting with the PM.
This alarming news has raised fears among the heart of the British Government since yesterday after Nadine Dorries broke the news to The Times Of London and shared the same on her Twitter account as well.
Thanks for so many good wishes. It’s been pretty rubbish but I hope I’m over the worst of it now. More worried about my 84yo mum who is staying with me and began with the cough today. She is being tested tomorrow. Keep safe and keep washing those hands, everyone.
— Rt Hon Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) March 10, 2020
Dorries has thanked her well-wishers for their support and reveals that her 84-years-old mother has also started showing symptoms of the virus.
Dorries, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, began to feel sick on Friday and was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Tuesday. She’s currently in isolation in her home recovering.
Dorries attended a Downing Street reception with Prime Minister Johnson last Thursday and met other Members of Parliament among the hundreds of people she interacted with prior to her diagnosis, according to the Times.
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Dorries says she started to feel ill on Friday while signing a statutory instrument in order to declare coronavirus a “notifiable disease” in the UK. She also attended a constituency surgery in which she met with 50 members of the public.
Officials are rapidly seeking to identify exactly who she interacted with. How Dorries contracted the virus is not yet known.
Labour MP Rachael Maskell posted on Twitter that she was self-isolating due to meeting with Dorries last week.
NHS111 have advised that I self-isolate as a result of a meeting I had with the Government's Mental Health Minister last Thursday who has subsequently tested positive for Coronovirus. Thankfully I am asymptomatic. It is so important that we all follow all public health advice.
— 💙Rachael Maskell MP (@RachaelMaskell) March 11, 2020
“Public Health England has started detailed contact tracing and the department and my parliamentary office are closely following their advice,” Dorries said in a statement.
The UK has confirmed more than 380 coronavirus infections and six people have died as of Tuesday.
The new coronavirus causes a respiratory illness named COVID-19, which has flu-like symptoms.
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Experts have advised the public to practice good personal hygiene including frequent hand-washing for at least 20 seconds, staying home if sick, and avoiding large crowds to help protect themselves and also limit the spread of the virus.
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