UK health minister Sajid Javid tests positive for Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated

UK health minister Sajid Javid tests positive for Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated

LONDON: UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Saturday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating at home with mild symptoms.
In a tweet, the senior Cabinet minister wrote: “This morning I tested positive for Covid. I’m waiting for my PCR result, but thankfully I have had my jabs and symptoms are mild. Please make sure you come forward for your vaccine if you haven’t already.”
On Tuesday, Javid, 51, was visiting a care home in Streatham, south London, and earlier that day he was in Parliament.
He got the positive test from a lateral flow test that he took after feeling “a bit groggy” on Friday night and says he is now self-isolating at home with his family.
“I was feeling a bit groggy last night, so I took a lateral flow test this morning and it’s come out positive, so I’m now self-isolating at home with my family until I get the results of a PCR test,” the Pakistani-origin minister said in a video posted to his Twitter account.
“I’m grateful that I’ve had two jabs of the vaccine and so far, my symptoms are very mild,” he said.
Javid, a former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, started his new role in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) last month, replacing Matt Hancock who resigned after a leaked CCTV footage showed him kissing an aide and former lobbyist Gina Coladangelo in his ministerial office.
—PTI

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