Boris Johnson Back In Quarantine

“First, the new British Health Secretary Sajid Javid — three weeks on the job, in the middle of an explosion in cases, who had declared it was time to ‘live with the virus’— announced on Saturday that he’d tested positive for the coronavirus and would self-isolate,” the Washington Post reports.

“Then on Sunday, both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Finance Minister Rishi Sunak said they’d been alerted by the National Health Service that since they had been in close contact with an infected individual — i.e., Javid — they must immediately quarantine at home.”

“The quarantine of the top leadership in a British government struggling to manage the pandemic comes less than 24 hours before Johnson plans to end almost all government mandates in England for mask-wearing and social distancing.”

The New York Times reports Johnson’s initial announcement that he would take part in a “daily contact testing pilot” rather than isolate himself was met with widespread outrage.