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Johnson tests positive for coronavirus while NHS staff wait until next week for testing
Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street, London, yesterday

PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock both have coronavirus, they announced today.

They said that they would be working from self-isolation while continuing to lead the government’s fight against the pandemic.

And England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty also said he was self-isolating having developed symptoms.

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