Justin Trudeau’s wife tests positive for coronavirus

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has tested positive for coronavirus.   

Sophie Trudeau began to exhibit symptoms on Wednesday evening after returning to Canada from a trip to the UK where she attended the WE Day UK Charity event and concert in London last Tuesday March 3.   

Idris Elba, Jamie Oliver, race car driver Lewis Hamilton and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard were also present at the event.   

After she felt ill the Canadian Prime Minister’s office released a statement saying she will get tested and she and her husband would be put in isolation.   

Meanwhile, an Italian medical chief died of coronavirus at the age of 67, it emerged today, as the countries death toll jumped to over 1,000.   

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Italy jumped by 189 to 1,016 in 24 hours, a rise of 23 per cent, it emerged on Thursday.   

The total number of cases in Italy, the European country hardest hit by the virus, rose to 15,113 from a previous 12,462, an increase of 21.7 per cent.   

The Civil Protection Agency said that, of those originally infected, 1,258 had fully recovered compared to 1,045 the day before. Some 1,153 people were in intensive care against a previous 1,028.  
Canada, (Daily Mail), 13 March 2020