UK health minister Dorries diagnosed with coronavirus

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UK health minister Dorries diagnosed with coronavirus

 

FILE PHOTO: British Conservative MP Nadine Dorries speaks in the Parliament during a debate on alternatives to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit Deal, in London, Britain April 3, 2019, in this screen grab taken from video. Reuters TV via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - British junior health minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating, she said on Tuesday.

 

Dorries said she took “all the advised precautions” as soon as she was told of her diagnosis.

 

“Public Health England has started detailed contact tracing and the department and my parliamentary office are closely following their advice,” she said in a statement issued through the UK’s health department.

 

The Times reported that Dorries met hundreds of people in Parliament in the past week and attended a reception with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

 

Britain’s health minister, Matt Hancock, tweeted that he was “really sorry” to hear of Dorries’ diagnosis. “She has done the right thing by self isolating at home,” he said.

 

Earlier on Tuesday, the death toll in the United Kingdom from the coronavirus outbreak rose to six, British health officials said.

 

The health ministry also said the number of people who had tested positive for the virus had risen to 373 from 319.

 

(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru and James Davey in London; Editing by Leslie Adler and Stephen Coates)

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-03-11

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[Laughing Gravy]

Sorry to hear. It will be interesting to see how many people she has infected. Hope she recovers soon.

[mrfill]

Must be a bit of a burden to get this on top of mad cow disease.

[drguid]

And still they keep schools open. I feel it's ironic that I fled my job in China because of the thing and now I'm quite likely to get it in the UK ????.

[URMySunshine]

It ripped through the Iranian government and parliament and now I fear it might do the same thing in the UK. 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8099279/Nadine-Dorries-reveals-one-parliamentary-staff-coronavirus.html

Who has Nadine Dorries had contact with while carrying coronavirus and before she fell ill?

Nadine Dorries, a health minister responsible for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, is likely to have been in contact with hundreds of people in the up to two weeks she may have been carrying the illness before she began showing symptoms.
This is what we know about her movements:
Tuesday February 25 – Keeping Safe Conference, Westminster's Abbey
Saturday February 29 – celebrates her mother's 84th birthday at a party in a restaurant
Wednesday March 4 – Spoke in the House of Commons
Thursday March 5 – Downing Street event to mark International Women's Day. PM Boris Johnson also attended
Earlier in the day she met Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who is now also in self-isolation.
Friday March 6 – Began feeling unwell but is believed to have had a members' lunch in her constituency
Saturday March 7 – Held surgery at her Mid-Bedfordshire constituency where 50 people attended
Tuesday March 10 - Nadine Dorries tests positive for coronavirus
Wednesday March 11 - The MP confirms a member of her staff has also tested positive and pictures of her offices in Parliament, sealed off, emerge

Mother now symptomatic

Edited March 11, 2020 by URMySunshine

[URMySunshine]

And with a viral pathogen that is 37 x more infectious than flu they do this...

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8099243/MPs-demand-Boris-Johnson-tested-deadly-coronavirus.html