The child's mother was reportedly rushed to the North Middlesex Hospital in the borough of Enfield with suspected pneumonia days earlier, the Metro newspaper said in the report on Friday. It is thought that she only learned of her diagnosis right after giving birth. The newborn was thought to have been tested within minutes of being born.
Britain's government will introduce emergency laws next week to ban mass gatherings in an attempt to curb the coronavirus outbreak, an escalation of its crisis plan which critics had said was too relaxed. PM Boris Johnson has so far resisted pressure to take some of the stringent measures adopted by other European countries.
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is self-isolating after becoming the first MP to test positive for the virus. The parliamentary under-secretary of state for health and social care fell ill last friday, when ironically, she was signing a statutory instrument in relation to coronavirus. She took the test on Monday and revealed the results on Tuesday.
A British Indian Krishna devotee who regularly visited Bhaktivedanta Manor in Watford has become the sixth person in Britain to die from coronavirus. Manohar Krishna Prabhu, in his eighties, passed away at Watford General Hospital on Monday night. Manohar is the first Indian-origin person known to have died of the virus in Britain. His son is still being treated at the hospital.
The British death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to six. The patient was being treated at Watford General Hospital, north of London, and had tested positive for COVID-19. The patient, who died in the evening of Monday, March 9, was in his early 80s and had underlying health conditions.
British police shot dead a man brandishing two knives near parliament in central London, officers said on Monday, adding that the incident was not terror-related.
