Fears Over Queen Elizabeth

<h4>Fears Over Queen<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Britain&&num;8217&semi;s Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for coronavirus&comma; Buckingham Palace announced Sunday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The 95-year-old sovereign &&num;8212&semi; who is celebrating her 70th year on the throne &&num;8212&semi; is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor over the coming week&comma; the palace said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all appropriate guidelines&comma;&&num;8221&semi; it added&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;UK media have reported that the Queen is fully vaccinated&period; Buckingham Palace previously confirmed both the monarch and her late husband&comma; Prince Philip&comma; had received their first doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in January 2021&period; But the palace has declined to reveal any information about subsequent vaccinations&comma; citing medical privacy&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Queen is not the only person in her circle to test positive for Covid-19&comma; a royal source said on Sunday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;A number of cases have been diagnosed in the Windsor Castle team&comma;&&num;8221&semi; a source said without specifying who else had tested positive&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Queen&&num;8217&semi;s health has been closely scrutinized since late last year when she retreated from public events on advice from doctors to rest after an overnight hospital stay for an undisclosed reason&period; Fresh concern was renewed in the past few days as multiple family members self-isolated after testing positive for the virus&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prince Charles&comma; heir to the British throne&comma; tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time 10 days ago while his wife&comma; Camilla&comma; Duchess of Cornwall&comma; confirmed she too had the virus on Monday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A royal source confirmed at the time that the Queen had &&num;8220&semi;recently&&num;8221&semi; met her eldest son&comma; but the source did not elaborate on exactly when the interaction had taken place&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Prince of Wales previously contracted coronavirus in March 2020&comma; as countries around the world were first feeling the effects of the pandemic&period; Charles said at the time that he was first infected that he had been lucky only to experience mild symptoms&comma; adding that he&&num;8217&semi;d &&num;8220&semi;got away with it quite lightly&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prince William also tested positive for Covid-19 in 2020&comma; though his infection wasn&&num;8217&semi;t revealed until months later&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Queen&&num;8217&semi;s diagnosis comes days after she completed her first in-person engagement since returning to Windsor from Sandringham where she had marked the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne and the death of her father&comma; King George VI&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Wednesday&comma; the monarch held an audience with the outgoing Defence Services Secretary&comma; Rear Admiral James Macleod&comma; and his successor&comma; Major General Eldon Millar&comma; during which she appeared in good spirits&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On her return to Windsor&comma; a royal source said the Queen was resuming her regular duties of audiences&comma; credentials and privy council meetings&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She has made plans to appear at a number of major engagements next month&colon; a diplomatic reception at Windsor Castle on March 2&comma; the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey on March 14&semi; and a service of thanksgiving for Prince Philip at the same venue on March 29&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While all are still a few weeks away&comma; the Queen&&num;8217&semi;s positive Covid-19 test may put her attendance in doubt&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Sunday&comma; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wished the Queen a &&num;8220&semi;swift recovery&&num;8221&semi; in a post on Twitter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m sure I speak for everyone in wishing Her Majesty The Queen a swift recovery from Covid and a rapid return to vibrant good health&comma;&&num;8221&semi; wrote Johnson&comma; who contracted Covid-19 himself in March 2020&comma; at the height of the first wave in the UK&comma; spending three nights in ICU&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Source&colon; CNN<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;