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Prince Charles isolating after testing positive for COVID-19

Royal officials say Britain’s Prince Charles has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating

Via AP news wire
Thursday 10 February 2022 07:32 EST
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Britain Royals (2022 Getty Images)

Britain s Prince Charles has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating, his office said Thursday.

A message on the royal's official Twitter page said Charles tested positive on Thursday morning and was “deeply disappointed” not to be able to attend a scheduled visit in Winchester England.

No other details were immediately available.

Charles, 73, met dozens of people during a Wednesday evening reception at the British Museum.

The heir to the throne previously contracted the coronavirus in March 2020. Officials said he had mild COVID-19 symptoms then. Charles and his wife, Camilla isolated at Queen Elizabeth II s Balmoral estate in Scotland at the time.

Spain's King Felipe VI, 54, and Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, 81, also tested positive for the coronavirus this week.

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