British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reported on Friday that he is self-confining in the wake of testing positive for COVID-19.

"Throughout the most recent 24 hours I have created gentle side effects and tried positive for coronavirus," he said on Twitter, posting a video message.

I am presently self-disconnecting, yet I will keep on driving the administration's reaction through video-gathering as we battle this infection," he composed.

"Be in no uncertainty that I can proceed with gratitude to the wizardry of present-day innovation to speak with all my top group to lead the national fightback against coronavirus," he included the video message.

Inside an hour of Mr. Johnson's tweet, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock reported on Twitter that he excessively has tried positive for coronavirus.

A Downing Street representative said in an explanation that Johnson, whose accomplice Carrie Symonds is pregnant, experienced mellow indications on Thursday and was tried for COVID-19 on the individual exhortation of England's main clinical official.

The test was completed in No 10 by NHS staff, the representative included.

In his video message, Johnson expressed gratitude toward laborers in Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS) for their endeavors in doing combating the spread of the infection.

A sum of 11,658 coronavirus cases have so far been affirmed in Britain, and 578 passings.

Prior this week Prince Charles, the oldest child, and beneficiary to Queen Elizabeth II, additionally tried positive for the infection.

The administration affirmed for the current week that if Johnson was crippled, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab would briefly accept the job of a head administrator.