Daily Mail: Coronavirus chaos escalates as both Boris Johnson AND Health Secretary Matt Hancock test positive - but PM insists he will keep working
* Boris Johnson announced that he has tested positive for coronavirus as the outbreak spreads across the UK
* Prime Minister insisted he will still lead UK's response to the crisis thanks to 'wizardry of modern technology'
* Mr Johnson took part in applause for NHS staff from Downing Street last night and was in Commons for PMQs
* Bombshell news will raise fears that other politicians and senior officials will have been infected as well
* The premier will self-isolate for seven days in his flat above No11 Downing Street and he will work from there
* But No10 insisted no other ministers need to self-isolate despite guidance for whole households to do so
* Mr Johnson's partner Carrie Symonds pregnant and thought to have been following guidance on self-isolation
Both Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock dramatically announced they are suffering from coronavirus today - threatening to send the government's response into chaos.
The Prime Minister said he had tested positive for the disease, after developing a temperature and cough yesterday afternoon, and being advised by Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty to get checked.
The 55-year-old insisted he only has 'mild' symptoms', and will be continuing to lead the national response over video-conference. The PM will stay in his flat in No11 - from where he chaired a meeting of the 'war Cabinet' this morning - and aides will leave meals and work outside the door.
And within hours Mr Hancock had revealed he also has the virus. 'I've tested positive. Thankfully my symptoms are mild and I'm working from home & self-isolating,' he tweeted.
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Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus.— Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives (@BorisJohnson) March 27, 2020
I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus.
Together we will beat this. #StayHomeSaveLives pic.twitter.com/9Te6aFP0Ri
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It is one of the strangest, most dangerous moments in presidential history. At a time when American cities remain on the rising side of the coronavirus infection curve, Trump is preaching recklessness and selling the idea that coronavirus pessimists are engaged in a plot against him. This is not normal partisanship. It is not normal, period. Trump is not only proposing a celebration of the Resurrection that would fill graves. He is implying that one way to “own the libs” is by further exposing the elderly to a cruel illness. He is urging his “pro-life” followers to increase their tolerance for death.
President Trump speaks with the coronavirus task force at the White House on Tuesday.
President Trump speaks with the coronavirus task force at the White House on Tuesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
This represents a different kind of sickness — a moral sickness that took hold in Trump long ago. His immediate, selfish interest is the cause — the only cause — to which he has dedicated his life.
All this raises the question: On what basis is Trump making decisions in the current crisis? His Easter festival of infection was certainly not proposed on any medical or scientific basis.
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