Nadine Dorries first UK MP to test positive.

[CoronaVera]

Why always the health ministers?

Health minister tests positive for coronavirus www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51827356

I’m curious to know how she contracted it.

Wow, as health minister you would assume she was following all the precautions and had much better Intel than any of us on how to avoid it as well.

Bloody hell.

I wonder whether she had contact with a known patient, or whether they bent the rules to test her?

Yes I'm wondering how she got tested if not a known contact.

If she didn't have contact with a known case, I don't think they will be able to justify the current testing strategy any longer.

It’s apparently about 34 times more infectious than flu so don’t know what will happen now government have it?! It’s airborne so don’t think washing her hands would have helped much.

Oh bloody hell!

Apparently she was recently in contact with the Prime Minister so he'll have to be tested now too.

You couldn't make it up though could you.

I want to know why she was able to be tested if she doesn’t meet the criteria. Thought we were all in this together? Is it one rule for them and one rule for us?

If she isn’t sick enough to be at hospital and no recent travel she doesn’t meet criteria?

And would Boris meet criteria? A colleague of mine has had direct contact and they won’t test her unless she has symptoms.

Of course she should have had priority testing, if the health department is wiped out by the virus what do you think happens to the country?

Probably not but I wouldn't even begrudge them bending the rules for the PM. I'm not a fan of his but his loveable cuddly we'll all be fine reassurance rather goes out of the window if he's got it himself!

No you really couldn't make it up! Well if the health minister has caught it then there's no hope for any of us (light hearted)

I don’t think she should have priority testing at all. What about HCPs who can’t get tested as they haven’t been abroad? Think they’re more vital.

It's like a plot from 'Years and Years'

I only hope now that it hammers home how close this is to all of us and how the testing criteria needs updating urgently.

To be fair, if I was her I’d think of it as a perk of the job.

Hopefully having it this close to home will make BoJo take it all a bit more seriously

Yes, I sincerely hope they agree to test anyone now who is medically suspected of having it.

This makes a mockery of their 111 advice/testing triage. No contact with a confirmed case from the sounds of it, or mention of travel to Wuhan or Northern Italy.

There’s clearly widespread community acquired cases, why are they withholding testing?

Wonder whether they'll all show up for the budget tomorrow as usual?

We’ve just been discussing on another thread that we know it is widespread in our community it’s not even a secret.

Our college has it but remains open. Not even been cleaned

So Boris should be self isolating now for 14 days?

350 cases out of a population of 60 million and one of them is our Health Minister! Seems a bit unlucky that based on numbers.

Coranavirus has been exposed to Nadine Dorries.
It should self-isolate.

How very convenient, oh well she'll have been in contact with them all.
A nice 2 week self isolation for them all, whilst a deadly virus spreads throughout the rest of us, just in time to peak for Easter.

I'm so very sorry for her, and hope she has no complications.