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British Health Minister
Sajid Javid
announced on Saturday that he had tested positive for Covid-19, two days before the lifting of almost all restrictions in England, a lack of focus that worries due to the outbreak of cases related to the
Delta variant.
"I felt a bit upset last night
so I had an antigen test this morning and it came back positive. I am now in isolation at home with my family until I get a PCR test result," Sajid Javid explained in a video posted on
Twitter.
Javid is fully vaccinated and says his symptoms are "very mild."
The minister had an "extensive" meeting on Friday with Prime Minister
Boris Johnson,
according to the
Sunday Times.
Johnson came close to dying
from Covid-19 last year.
His office declined to comment on whether the prime minister or other members of his cabinet should remain isolated because of the meeting.
Javid had spoken, without a mask, in the
House of Commons
on Monday afternoon to confirm the lifting of most of the remaining coronavirus-related restrictions in England from July 19, including the mandatory use of the mask and social distancing.
The following day he returned to the
lower house of Parliament
to answer the questions of the deputies.
The government justifies this next stage thanks to the success of a vaccination campaign that began in December, which allowed more than two-thirds of adults to be fully vaccinated and "weakened" the link between illness, hospitalization and death, allowing the public health system to do facing the situation.
However, the number of infections continues to increase, due to the strong contagiousness of the Delta variant, which is ultra-majority in the
United Kingdom.
The country registered
50,000 daily cases on Friday,
something never seen since January.
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