Nadine Dorries, UK Health Minister and Conservative MP tests positive for coronavirus

LONDON: Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries from the UL has tested positive for coronavirus. According to media reports, she has been self isolating herself at home and taking all the necessary precautions.

So far, six people have died from coronavirus.

She tweeted:

https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1237517539883634688

Dorries has become the first British politician to have tested positive for the virus.

Efforts are on to trace people who she has come in contact with.

Secretary of State for Health & Social Care and MP for West Suffolk also tweeted:

https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1237508595698274305

Novel coronavirus that originated from China’s Wuhan city has spread across the globe, causing widespread panic for the past few months.

As per media reports, the COVID-19 cases have now spread in more than 100 countries, including India.

More than 106,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and 3,600 have died from it, according to a Reuters tally of government announcements.

It has wreaked havoc on the sporting landscape as well as forcing athletes into making lifestyle changes in the Olympic year.

Meanwhile, the Italian government has imposed a sweeping quarantine on the Lombardy region and 11 northeastern provinces that are together home to some 16 million people in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus, has so far claimed the lives of 233 people. South Korea and Italy have been some of the worst affected countries outside China.

Taking effect on Sunday and remain in force through April 3, the measure would prohibit people from entering or leaving the affected areas except in cases of “non-deferrable work reasons” or emergencies, Efe news reported citing a draft of the proposed decree as saying.

The government has also ordered schools and universities nationwide to suspend classes until March 15. Those in the quarantine areas will now remain shuttered until April 3.

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