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Coronavirus: UK Health minister Nadine Dorries tests positive

Coronavirus: UK Health minister Nadine Dorries tests positive
March 11, 2020
LONDON (Web Desk) – United Kingdom (UK) Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation ‘BBC’, Ms Dorries, the first MP to test positive, said she had taken all the advised precautions after finding out and has been self-isolating at home. This comes as a sixth person died from the virus in the UK, which has a total of 382 cases. The latest person to die was a man in his early 80s who had underlying health conditions. The government will unveil its first Budget later, amid growing fears about the impact the outbreak will have on the UK economy. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged the NHS will get "whatever resources it needs" during the crisis, while he is also expected to unveil measures to boost the self-employed and small businesses who are left out of pocket. Meanwhile, NHS England said it was scaling up its capacity for testing people for the infection, with the number of cases set to rise.