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UK PM tests positive for Covid-19, Modi extends best wishes

ENEWSTIME Desk by ENEWSTIME Desk
March 27, 2020
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UK PM tests positive for Covid-19 and PM Modi extends best wishes. Till Friday, 8,215 deaths from coronavirus in Italy, highest in world. Mass testing conducted in Vatican. 

London, March 27, 2020 (IANS) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday disclosed he has tested positive for Covid-19 but will continue to discharge his duties from self-isolation.

Johnson becomes the second high-profile British leader to test positive for coronavirus in recent days after Prince Charles, the heir to the the throne. Some ministers in the Johnson government and MPs have also tested positive for Covid-19.
“I’ve developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus, that’s a temperature and a persistent cough,” Boris Johnson said in a video posted on his Twitter account. “On the advice of the chief medical officer, I have taken a test and that has come out positive. “I’m working from home and self-isolating. That’s entirely the right thing to do. “I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of technology, to communicate with my top team and lead the national fightback against the virus.”

Earlier, a 10 Downing Street spokesman had said that Johnson’s “symptoms are mild and he will continue to lead the government response to the virus while he self-isolates”, the BBC reported.

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Modi extends best wishes

Soon after his UK counterpart Boris Johnson on Friday revealed that he had tested positive for Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his wishes for his speedy recovery.

“Dear PM Boris Johnson, You’re a fighter and you will overcome this challenge as well. Prayers for your good health and best wishes in ensuring a healthy UK,” Modi said in a tweet.

Mass testing at Vatican, 8,215 deaths in Italy

Mass testing has been carried out in the Vatican after a priest living at the Popes residence tested positive for the novel coronavirus. As of Friday, Italy reported 80,589 confirmed coronavirus cases with 8,215 deaths, the highest in the world.

Msgr. Gianluca Pezzoli, 58, head of the Italian section of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State tested positive earlier this week. He is a permanent resident at Santa Marta, Efe news reported on Friday. Pezzoli has now been hospitalized.

Pope Francis has already been tested once before after he had a bad cold but the result was negative. This was the pontiff’s second COVID-19 test.

On Friday, Roman newspaper Il Messaggero said that another official State Secretary had also tested positive for coronavirus, although he lived in a residence outside the Vatican.

The Holy See has confirmed the existence of four coronavirus cases: workers at the Vatican Museum and an employee of the papal state.

With the infection reported by the Roman newspaper on Friday the total number of Vatican infections would be five.

Steps to protect Pope Francis

The Vatican has not reported on the measures that have been taken to protect Pope Francis from possible contagion.  According to the Roman newspaper, Francis has stopped eating lunch in the common dining room and eats alone in his room and has limited visits, although he continues to receive people in private audiences. He has also refused to move to the rooms of the papal palace, where previous popes lived, and which he rejected as he felt too isolated.

The Vatican has reported that the dicasteries (ministries) and other agencies have not suspended their activities, but have reduced the number of staff in the offices and promoted home working where possible. The Vatican has also closed St. Peter’s Square and the basilica temporarily until April 3, as a preventive measure against the spread of this virus.

Pope Francis offers daily morning mass, the general audiences on Wednesdays and the Angelus prayer which are all streamed online. The pope has invited the faithful across the world to join him in prayer on Friday at 6 p.m.

The initiative was announced on Sunday’s Angelus: “I invite everyone to participate spiritually through the means of communication”.

The prayer comes after Wednesday’s live-streamed ceremony during which Christians around the world gathered to pray the Our Father in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tags: Boris JohnsonBritishcoronaviruscovid-19ItalyPopePrime Minister Narendra ModiVatican

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