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Queen Elizabeth (95) tests positive for Covid with ‘mild, cold-like symptoms’
She last visited Nelson in February 1986, with large crowds wherever she went.
It was a short stop, lasting just two hours. Time enough for the Queen to name the "northern outlet" as Queen Elizabeth II Drive, and have "a light and luscious luncheon" with 300 invited guests.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh who died on 9 April 2021, two months before his 100th birthday, never made a trip to Tasman.
The announcement, of the monarch now catching covid, was made just a few weeks after the nation’s longest-reigning monarch reached her platinum jubilee of 70 years on the throne on February 6.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement yesterday: “Buckingham Palace confirm that The Queen has today tested positive for Covid. Her Majesty has mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor over the coming week. She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the appropriate guidelines.”
Concern across the Commonwealth and the UK will be at peak levels for the queen given her advanced age, her health scare in recent months and her popularity in countries where many have known no other monarch on the throne.
She is understood to be triple-vaccinated, but she had been on doctors’ orders to rest since mid-October after cancelling a run of engagements and spending a night in hospital undergoing preliminary tests.
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