A health minister in Boris Johnson's government tests positive for coronavirus and had interacted with the prime minister before her diagnosis

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• A minister in Boris Johnson's government has tested positive for coronavirus.
• UK Health Minister Nadine Dorries said on Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with COVID-19.
• Dorries had reportedly met with MPs and Johnson over the past week, prior to her diagnosis.
• It's not yet known how Dorries contracted the virus or if she spread it to anyone else.
• Six people in the UK have died after catching coronavirus.
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A health minister in Boris Johnson's UK government has tested positive for coronavirus.

Nadine Dorries confirmed on Tuesday evening that she had caught the COVID-19 virus after The Times of London broke the news.

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