Queen Elizabeth II, 95, has canceled her participation in a virtual engagement planned for this Tuesday (22) because she still has mild symptoms of a cold after being diagnosed with Covid-19 last Sunday (19), a spokesperson said. -voice of Buckingham Palace.
Announcing her positive test result for the disease, the palace said she should continue with light engagements, an indication that the world’s oldest current monarch was not seriously ill.
Elizabeth sent a message of condolences to Brazil on Monday, saying she was deeply saddened by the recent fatal floods in Petrópolis (RJ).
She had planned to go ahead with other scheduled virtual diplomatic hearings with foreign ambassadors, but on Tuesday it was announced that she will decide closer in time whether to go ahead with other engagements this week, including her weekly conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday.
News of the positive test has heightened concerns about the health of the world’s oldest monarch two weeks after she turned 70 on the British throne.
The queen, who was fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, spent months in the year 2020, the first of the pandemic, in quarantine. In April last year, at her husband Prince Philip’s funeral, she sat alone at the ceremony, due to social distancing rules. More recently, she has returned to participating in events.
Last week, for example, he greeted the Estonian and Spanish ambassadors in virtual meetings at Buckingham Palace. On Wednesday (16), he received two soldiers and appeared smiling and carrying a cane. “As you can see, I can’t get around,” he said jokingly, pointing to his left leg, suggesting some mobility problem.
The latest guidance from British health authorities says that those with Covid must self-isolate for five days, and can end it if they have two negative tests for Covid carried out on two consecutive days from the fifth day of symptoms. If at least one of the tests is positive, the isolation period must be extended to 10 days.
