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Coronavirus: Health minister diagnosed with Covid-19 says 84-year-old mother now infected NewsColony Nadine Dorries , the junior health minister who became the first MP to contract the Covid-19 coronavirus , has confirmed her mother has also been infected. Ms Dorries confirmed on Tuesday she had tested positive for the virus, which has infected almost 800 people in the UK, and that officials were working to trace its further spread with senior politicians among the potential carriers. Now the 62-year-old has confirmed on Twitter that her mother is among those to have caught the novel coronavirus which began its spread from Wuhan, China in December last year. Download the new Independent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now “We have had my 84-year-old Mum’s results through”, Ms Dorries wrote. “She tested positive. She’s a pre war baby, doing ok. Made of strong stuff.” At the time she announced her own illness, the conservative poli...