QUEEN ELIZABETH II TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 BUT PLANS TO CARRY ON WORKING

Sun 20 February 2022:

The Queen has tested positive for Covid-19, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.

Her Majesty is said have mild cold-like symptoms – and expects to continue with light duties at Windsor this week.

Her Majesty was being closely monitored after Prince Charles caught the virus just days after pair had been in close contact earlier this month.

As the time, Buckingham Palace refused to confirm whether the 95-year-old monarch had tested positive or negative, fuelling fears for her health, but palace sources insisted she was not displaying symptoms of the virus.

However, it has now been confirmed that she too has tested positive for Covid.

The Queen has been triple-vaccinated. She received her first jab in January 2021 and her second jab in March while sources say it is believed she got her booster jab in October.

The Prince of Wales, aged 73, has finished his period of self isolation after testing positive last Thursday, forcing him to pull out of a joint engagement in Winchester with wife Camilla.

Aides confirmed the future king had not experienced strong symptoms, but the Duchess of Cornwall revealed he was finding the situation “a bit tiresome”.

It is the second time the heir to the throne has contracted the virus, first doing so in March 2020 when he had mild symptoms and lost his sense of smell and taste.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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