Queen Consort Camilla has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time.
“After suffering the symptoms of a cold, Her Majesty The Queen Consort has tested positive for the Covid virus,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement Monday.
The palace added: “With regret, she has therefore cancelled all her public engagements for this week and sends her sincere apologies to those who had been due to attend them.”
It’s unclear if her husband, King Charles III, has also isolated since Camilla tested positive.
Her recent diagnosis comes a year after she first tested positive for COVID-19 with a breakthrough case. Camilla began self-isolating on Feb. 14, 2022, just four days after Charles tested positive for the virus a second time, Charles and Camilla’s official royal residence told the Associated Press.
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Charles began isolating on Feb. 10, 2022, after testing positive. On the evening prior to testing positive, he and Duchess Camilla, 74, attended a reception at the British Museum for the British Asian Trust, a charity the prince founded in 2007, to support communities in South Asia.
The same day Charles tested positive, Camilla carried on with her engagements as scheduled, making appearances at a sexual assault referral center and a food poverty charity, both in London, and a criminal justice organization just outside the city. The appearances were held almost entirely indoors; Camilla was only photographed wearing a mask during part of one visit.
Charles and Camilla received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in February 2021. In December 2021 on the anniversary of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine being administered in the U.K., they announced that they had both received a booster dose as well, urging others to do the same.
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“People who are unvaccinated are at least 10 times more likely to be hospitalised or die than those who have had two vaccine doses. That is why we urge everyone to get vaccinated and to take up the booster, as we have done ourselves,” the statement read.
Contributing: Hannah Yasharoff, Elise Brisco and Maria Puente, USA TODAY; The Associated Press
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