LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II examined constructive for COVID-19 on Sunday and is experiencing delicate, cold-like signs, Buckingham Palace mentioned, including that the 95-year-old monarch would keep it up working.
The palace mentioned the queen would proceed with “gentle” duties at Windsor Fort over the approaching week.
“She is going to proceed to obtain medical consideration and can comply with all the suitable tips,” the palace mentioned in a press release.
Individuals within the U.Okay. who take a look at constructive for COVID-19 are required to self-isolate for not less than 5 days, although the British authorities says it plans to elevate that requirement for England within the coming week.
The queen has acquired three doses of coronavirus vaccine.
Each her eldest son Prince Charles, 73, and 74-year-old daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall have additionally not too long ago contracted COVID-19. Charles has since returned to work.
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Senior politicians despatched get-well messages, with Well being Secretary Sajid Javid tweeting “Wishing Her Majesty The Queen a fast restoration.” Opposition Labour Get together chief Keir Starmer wished the queen “good well being and a speedy restoration. Get nicely quickly, Ma’am.”
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, the queen reached the milestone of 70 years on the throne on Feb. 6, the anniversary of the loss of life in 1952 of her father King George VI.
A fixture within the lifetime of the nation, Elizabeth has been in sturdy well being for almost all of her reign. Prior to now 12 months she has been seen utilizing a strolling stick, and in October she spent an evening in a London hospital for unspecified exams.
The queen’s medical doctors ordered her to relaxation, and he or she was pressured to cancel appearances at a number of key occasions, together with Remembrance Sunday providers and the COP26 local weather convention in Glasgow, Scotland in November.
This month she returned to public duties and has held audiences each just about and in particular person with diplomats, politicians and senior navy officers.
The queen has a busy schedule over the following few months of her Platinum Jubilee 12 months, and is scheduled to attend in-person public engagements within the coming weeks, together with a diplomatic reception at Windsor on March 2 and the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey on March 14.
On March 29, she is because of attend a remembrance service at Westminster Abbey for her husband Prince Philip, who died in April 2021 on the age of 99.
Public celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee are scheduled for June, with festivities together with a navy parade, a day of horse-racing and neighborhood events over a June 2-5 lengthy weekend.
The queen is the most recent monarch from world wide to catch COVID-19. Queen Margrethe of Denmark, 82, and Spain’s King Felipe VI, 54, each examined constructive for the sickness earlier in February and had delicate signs.
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