Liz Truss has tested positive for Covid hours after being surrounded by Tories during Boris Johnson's Commons debate
Thankfully I’ve had my three jabs and will be working from home while I isolate.She joins the Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, in isolating. He said earlier on Monday, in a strikingly similar statement: "Yesterday I tested positive for Covid and will therefore be watching my brilliant colleagues at oral questions today instead.
She had been due to go with Mr Johnson to Ukraine on Tuesday. The PM is set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Covid guidance does not require people who come into contact with positive cases to isolate if they are fully jabbed but they are asked to take one rapid lateral flow test every day for a week.
It means Tories who were close to Ms Truss, including Mr Johnson, do not need to automatically isolate. Most recently, Mr Johnson went into isolation after a family member tested positive. It was said his daughter Romy caught Covid and been "badly hit", but was recovering. He remained defiant despite growing calls for him to quit on Monday, and senior civil servant Ms Gray's report – despite being stripped down at the request of the Metropolitan Police – savaged the "failure of leadership" in No10 and the Cabinet Office.
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