• U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

    U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, the respiratory illness that continues to spread in Britain and around the globe, he announced Friday. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus,” Johnson wrote in a Friday morning tweet. “I am now self-isolating, but I will continue …
  • Boris Johnson Orders Near-Total Lockdown of the U.K. for Three Weeks

    Boris Johnson Orders Near-Total Lockdown of the U.K. for Three Weeks

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced he would impose an almost-complete lockdown throughout the United Kingdom in response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Britain will close all nonessential stores, ban meetings of more than two people, and forbid residents from leaving their homes for nonessential purposes for the next three weeks, with police instructed …