07 May 2024,   07:33
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UK Health minister Nadine Dorries tests positive on coronavirus

Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus.

Dorries, the first MP to test positive, said she had taken all the advised precautions after finding out and has been self-isolating at home.

This comes as a sixth person died from the virus in the UK, which has a total of 382 cases.

The latest person to die was a man in his early 80s who had underlying health conditions.

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