London:
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his finance minister Rishi Sunak will be restricted to working from their offices and topic to every day COVID-19 testing following becoming identified as a get in touch with of an individual who tested positive for the virus.
Health minister Sajid Javid on Saturday stated he had tested positive for COVID-19.
“The Prime Minister and Chancellor have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace as contacts of someone who has tested positive for Covid,” a statement from Johnsons’s Downing Street workplace stated on Sunday.
Typically, anybody identified as a get in touch with by the tracing scheme would be expected by law to self isolate for 10 days.
However, the government’s two most senior ministers will as an alternative take aspect in a pilot study that makes it possible for them to continue working from their offices, and only self-isolate when not working.
“They will be participating in the daily contact testing pilot to allow them to continue to work from Downing Street,” Downing Street stated. “They will be conducting only essential government business during this period.”
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