{"id":22203,"date":"2020-03-28T22:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/coronavirus-kills-more-than-1000-in-uk-report\/"},"modified":"2020-03-28T22:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:51:24","slug":"coronavirus-kills-more-than-1000-in-uk-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=22203","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Kills More Than 1,000 In UK: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>PM Boris Johnson and his health minister, Matt Hancock, were confirmed on Friday to be among those infected, although both said they had only mild symptoms.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/coronavirus-kills-more-than-1-000-in-uk-report-2202327\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>London: The number of coronavirus deaths in Britain jumped by 260 in one day to pass 1,000, official data showed Saturday, the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself tested positive.<br \/>At 5:00pm (1700 GMT) on Friday, the death toll was 1,019, up from 759 at the same time on Thursday, the health ministry figures showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 9:00 am on Saturday, a total of 120,776 people in Britain had been tested, of whom 17,089 were confirmed positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson and his health minister, Matt Hancock, were confirmed on Friday to be among those infected, although both said they had only mild symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their cabinet colleague, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, revealed on Saturday that he too had developed mild symptoms and was self-isolating, but had not been tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video message on Friday from Downing Street, where he lives and works, Johnson said he would continue to lead the government&#8217;s response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media reports suggest his pregnant partner, Carrie Symonds, who normally lives with him in Downing Street, moved several days ago to the couple&#8217;s south London home to self-isolate there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England&#8217;s chief medical officer Chris Whitty, another key player in the UK&#8217;s response, also said Friday that he was in self-isolation after experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated<\/em><\/strong><strong> feed.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Boris Johnson and his health minister, Matt Hancock, were confirmed on Friday to be among those infected, although both said they had only mild symptoms. NDTV London: The number of coronavirus deaths in Britain jumped by 260 in one day to pass 1,000, official data showed Saturday, the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}