Queen Elizabeth exams optimistic for Covid, her signs are delicate and she or he is vaccinated

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II examined optimistic for Covid-19 on Sunday and is experiencing delicate signs, Buckingham Palace mentioned. The queen has obtained three jabs of the coronavirus vaccine.

The 95-year-old monarch will proceed with gentle duties at Windsor Citadel over the approaching week, the officers mentioned.

“She’s going to proceed to obtain medical consideration and can comply with all the suitable pointers,” the palace mentioned in an announcement.

Each her eldest son Prince Charles and daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall even have lately contracted Covid. Charles has since returned to work.

Senior politicians despatched get-well messages, with Well being Secretary Sajid Javid tweeting “Wishing Her Majesty The Queen a fast restoration.” Opposition Labour Celebration chief Keir Starmer wished the queen “good well being and a speedy restoration. Get properly quickly, Ma’am.”

Folks within the U.Okay. who take a look at optimistic for Covid should self-isolate for not less than 5 days, although the British authorities mentioned it plans to carry that requirement for England within the coming week.

Together with her husband Prince Philip by her aspect, Elizabeth grew to become queen of the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand upon the dying of her father, George VI, on Feb. 6, 1952. Her coronation was June 2, 1953.

Philip died at age 99 on April 9, 2021, the sixteenth anniversary of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla, and the duke’s funeral was 4 days earlier than Elizabeth’s ninety fifth birthday on April 21.

Fourteen prime ministers have served below Elizabeth — from Winston Churchill on her accession to the throne in 1952 to Boris Johnson presently.

On an early April day in 2020, the queen appeared in a uncommon video speech from Windsor Citadel to vow her topics that they are going to prevail over the coronavirus. The speech aired hours earlier than Johnson was hospitalized for Covid-19. 

“Whereas we have now confronted challenges earlier than, this one is completely different,” she mentioned. “This time we be a part of with all nations throughout the globe in a standard endeavor, utilizing the nice advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal.”

Throughout the pandemic, Elizabeth and Philip had been staying at Windsor Citadel, the place she carried out duties remotely. With Covid restrictions easing, she made a uncommon public look at a shrine in close by Surrey in late March 2021 to mark the centenary of the Royal Australian Air Power. 

A day after Philip’s dying, daughter-in-law Sophie Countess of Wessex instructed well-wishers outdoors Windsor Citadel that “the queen has been wonderful.” On his casket, Elizabeth left a handwritten observe signed “Lilibet,” and on her ninety fifth birthday 4 days later, she issued an announcement saying she had been “deeply touched” by her topics’ shows of “assist and kindness.”

The queen is the most recent monarch to contract Covid. Queen Margrethe of Denmark, 82, and Spain’s King Felipe VI, 54, each examined optimistic earlier in February and every had delicate signs.

—The Related Press contributed to this report.