{"id":25528,"date":"2020-03-27T12:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25528"},"modified":"2020-03-27T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:57:40","slug":"uk-prime-minister-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-self-isolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25528","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister tests positive for Coronavirus, self isolates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, the government has said.<br \/>\nMr Johnson has mild symptoms and will self-isolate in Downing Street, after being tested at No 10 by NHS staff.<br \/>\n&#8220;He was tested for coronavirus on the personal advice of England&#8217;s chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty,&#8221; a statement said.<br \/>\nHe will still be in charge of the government&#8217;s handling of the crisis, the statement added.<br \/>\nIn a tweet, Mr Johnson said: &#8220;Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus. I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government&#8217;s response via video-conference as we fight this virus.<br \/>\n&#8220;Together we will beat this.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25529\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200327-125223_Samsung-Internet-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nMr Johnson was last seen on Thursday night as he clapped outside No 10 as part of a nationwide gesture to thank NHS staff.<br \/>\nThere are more than 11,600 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, and 578 people have died.<br \/>\nIt comes after the Prince of Wales also tested positive for the virus earlier this week.<br \/>\nPrince Charles, 71, is to be displaying mild symptoms &#8220;but otherwise remains in good health&#8221;, a spokesman said.<br \/>\nBy BBC.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, the government has said. Mr Johnson has mild symptoms and will self-isolate in Downing Street, after being tested at No 10 by NHS staff. &#8220;He was tested for coronavirus on the personal advice of England&#8217;s chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty,&#8221; a statement said. He will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1352,870,1353],"class_list":["post-25528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-boris","tag-coronavirus","tag-positive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}