Elizabeth II
has temporarily suspended her virtual meetings and is prolonging her recovery after being diagnosed with Covid last Sunday.
The brief announcement from Buckingham Palace has once again triggered speculation about the Queen's state of health and has left plans for her reappearance in public in March on the wing.
In the usual cryptic tone, a spokesman for the Royal House reported that the 95-year-old monarch continues to have "
symptoms similar to a mild cold
", forcing him to cancel his virtual meetings on Tuesday.
It is unknown if the Queen has been able to hold the required telephone conversation every Wednesday with Prime Minister
Boris Johnson.
The monarch's intention, according to the statement, is to continue with a "light agenda": the daily opening of the "red box" (with government offices), official correspondence and the formal signing of documents.
The Queen is under the
surveillance of her
personal doctor, Dr. Hugh Thomas, and she is following "the rules" set for "positive" Covid.
As of Thursday, curiously, the obligation to quarantine is lifted in the United Kingdom, within the measures announced this week by Boris Johnson within his new strategy "Living with Covid", which appeals to "personal responsibility" to prevent infections.
Buckingham Palace has not specified whether the Queen's "positive"
will force her to cancel all or part of her agenda for the month of March,
which started next Wednesday with a diplomatic reception in Windsor.
On March 14, the monarch was also scheduled to preside at the traditional Commonwealth mass at Westminster Abbey, followed on March 29 by another ceremony in memory of
Philip of Edinburgh
on the first anniversary of his death.
The setback of the Queen,
who will turn 96 on April 21,
may also alter the calendar for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, which start in June.
Elizabeth II herself recognized her fragility in the last public act in Windsor before testing "positive", when she appeared leaning on her cane and openly acknowledged: "
I can't move
".
Since last October, when she spent a night in hospital and suspended her schedule for two months due to fatigue, the Queen's health has been a matter of concern for the British.
The monarch had avoided the Covid in any case until the second "positive" of Prince Charles gave the alarm signal in mid-February.
The heir to the Crown had visited his mother two days earlier in Windsor, where an outbreak was also detected before the monarch contracted it.
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