{"id":68044,"date":"2020-03-27T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=68044"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:40:42","slug":"uk-health-secretary-also-has-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/uk-health-secretary-also-has-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Health Secretary Also Has Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary, has also tested positive for coronavirus.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He announced his diagnosis an Twitter too, just minutes after the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Following medical advice, I was advised to test for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2018ve tested positive. Thankfully my symptoms are mild and I\u2019m working from home &amp; self-isolating. <\/p>\n<p>Vital we follow the advice to protect our NHS &amp; save lives<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StayHomeSaveLives?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StayHomeSaveLives<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TguWH6Blij\">pic.twitter.com\/TguWH6Blij<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattHancock\/status\/1243522325397622784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He says in the video that his symptoms are \u201cmild\u201d and he took the test upon professional receiving medical advice from his peers. To remind people who complain that others \u201caren\u2019t getting tested as quickly,\u201d these men and women in government are running the country and are undoubtedly classed as key workers. He and the Prime Minister will continue to work from home and speak via video stream.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Blackford, SNP leader at Westminster, whilst wishing the PM a swift recovery, said: \u201cThis sadly shows nobody is immune. Everybody must follow the advice on social distancing, non-essential work must not take place. We need to take all measures to isolate if need be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary, has also tested positive for coronavirus. He announced his diagnosis an Twitter too, just minutes after the Prime Minister. Following medical advice, I was advised to test for #Coronavirus. I\u2018ve tested positive. Thankfully my symptoms are mild and I\u2019m working from home &amp; self-isolating. Vital we follow the advice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":68052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1802,1810,171,990,71,43],"class_list":["post-68044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-health","tag-health-news","tag-news","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68053,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68044\/revisions\/68053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}