British MP Ms Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus and is in self-isolation at home. The Health Department is officials are now racing to trace those who have had contact with Dorries, who first showed symptoms on Thursday – the same day she attended an event hosted by the Prime Minister of UK, Boris Johnson.
"I can confirm I have tested positive for Coronavirus," Dorries, a junior health minister, said in a statement released through the Department of Health. "As soon as I was informed I took all the advised precautions and have been self-isolating at home."
"It's been pretty rubbish but I hope I'm over the worst of it now," Dorries added on Twitter. "More worried about my 84yo mum who is staying with me and began with the cough today. She is being tested tomorrow."
Dorries' diagnosis comes as the UK's coronavirus cases reach 382 even as Six people with the virus have died. The effort to identify all those who have been in contact with Dorries has led officials to advise another lawmaker, Labour's Rachael Maskell, to go into self-isolation after she met with the minister.
"Thankfully I am asymptomatic. It is so important that we all follow all public health advice," Maskell said on Twitter Wednesday.
