UK Health Minister Diagnosed with Coronavirus: Self Isolates Herself

Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP and junior health minister has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus.

The 62-year-old is the first British politician to have tested positive for the virus, which has infected more than 118,000 people worldwide and leads to more than 4,200 deaths.

The under-secretary of state for health and social care’s diagnosis comes after the number of people infected nationwide increases to 373, the second-largest day-on-day increase since the outbreak began.

Meanwhile, some six people have died in the UK – the latest a man in his early eighties with an underlying health condition who passed away at Watford General Hospital.

UK Independent