Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for COVID-19 – CBC

Prime minister had been isolating after being in contact with someone who is infected

Jan 31, 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and, so far, he’s feeling “fine.”

Trudeau has been isolation since one of his children also tested positive for the virus late last week. In a social media post, Trudeau said he would stay in quarantine and work remotely while he recovers.

Trudeau got his first two COVID-19 shots last year and received a booster dose at an Ottawa pharmacy earlier this month.

After announcing his test result, Trudeau urged everyone to get vaccinated and get boosted at a time when cases of the Omicron variant are very high in many parts of the country. The prime minister’s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, contracted COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020.

The prime minister and his family were moved from their residence, Rideau Cottage, over the weekend as a convoy of truckers and other anti-vaccine-mandate protesters converged on Parliament Hill to oppose the federal government’s pandemic restrictions.

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