{"id":13731,"date":"2020-03-27T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2020-03-27T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:14:13","slug":"british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/13731","title":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the new coronavirus, but remains in charge of the U.K.\u2019s response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n

55 year old UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said Friday that he was tested for COVID-19 on the advice of the chief medical officer after showing \u201cmild symptoms\u201d involving a temperature and a persistent cough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve taken a test, that\u2019s come out positive so I am working from home, I am self-isolating, and that\u2019s entirely the right thing to do,\u201d he said in a video message posted on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n

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Boris Johnson is the highest-profile political leader to have contracted the virus, and his positive test comes at the end of a week when he effectively closed down much of the British economy and introduced strict curbs on people\u2019s day-to-day movements in an attempt to stem the march of the coronavirus outbreak in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, announced that he had tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the new coronavirus, but remains in charge of the U.K.\u2019s response to the outbreak. 55 year old UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said Friday that he was tested for COVID-19 on the advice of the chief medical officer after showing \u201cmild symptoms\u201d involving a temperature and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,1416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13734,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions\/13734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}