Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus
Heir to the throne self-isolating at home in Scotland
and is said to be ‘up and about’
Caroline
Davies
Wed 25 Mar
2020 11.59 GMTLast modified on Wed 25 Mar 2020 14.35 GMT
Prince Charles is reported to be in good spirits and
continuing to work.
Charles,
71, is said to be “up and about” and in “good spirits” and has continued to
work for the last few days.
Doctors
believe the earliest he would have been contagious was on 13 March. He last saw
the Queen on 12 March, following an investiture.
His last
public engagement was also on 12 March. He has held private meetings since
then.
Buckingham
Palace said: “Her Majesty the Queen remains in good health. The Queen last saw
the Prince of Wales briefly on the morning of 12 March and is following all the
appropriate advice with regard to her welfare.”
It is not
known whether the Queen has been tested for coronavirus.
Charles was
tested on Monday after qualifying for an NHS test due to age and medical condition
criteria in Aberdeenshire. He received the results on Tuesday. It is thought he
was tested at Birkhall, his home on the Queen’s Balmoral estate in
Aberdeenshire.
Medical
advice is that it is unlikely that his condition will escalate into a more serious
case. He is thought to have first displayed symptoms over the weekend.
Clarence
House said: “The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus. He has
been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been
working from home throughout the last few days as usual.
“The Duchess of Cornwall has also been tested
but does not have the virus. In accordance with government and medical advice,
the prince and the duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland. The
tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire where they met the criteria
required for testing.
“It is not
possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high
number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks.”
Camilla is
self-isolating separately from Charles at Birkhall and will carry on doing so
for 14 days.
No details
have been made public about exactly what symptoms Charles has displayed, except
that they are mild.
He and the
duchess travelled to Birkhall on SundayThey have a small team of domestic staff
who will remain there, sources have said.
The couple
are said not to be interacting with that small team of staff in any way.
Charles is
understood to have spoken to the Duke of Cambridge, who is in Norfolk, and the
Duke of Sussex, who is on Vancouver Island.
Since his
last public engagements on 12 March, Charles has held a small number of private
meetings at Highgrove, his home in Gloucestershire, on Duchy of Cornwall
business. The people he interacted with during those meetings have been
informed of Charles’s diagnosis. It is not known whether they have been tested.
All senior
members of the royal family were together on 9 March at a Commonwealth Day
service.
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