British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after coming into contact with a person who had tested positive for COVID, officials say.
The news is the latest setback in Johnson's administration following an internal conflict among his top advisers that rocked Downing Street last week.
The prime minister, who was admitted to intensive care earlier this year with the virus, is well and is not showing any symptoms, his spokesman said.
There were worries that COVID had returned to Downing Street as the result of a meeting between Johnson and a group of Tory members of parliament at No 10 - including Lee Anderson, a fellow member of the prime minister's Conservative Party. Anderson was later diagnosed with coronavirus.
"The prime minister will carry on working from Downing Street, including leading the government's response to the pandemic," a statement from Johnson's office said.
Johnson met with lawmakers at Downing Street on Friday, including Lee Anderson, a Conservative Party member who later on developed symptoms of the virus and tested positive.
Johnson announced a national lockdown in the face of increasing cases of COVID at the end of October - which some officials say will be in place until 2021.
The British leader has come under pressure from within his party not to extend the economically crippling, four-week pandemic lockdown. At the moment, the UK has more than 1.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, based on data from Johns Hopkins University.
Officials said they would discuss with parliamentary officials how Johnson could participate remotely in Parliamentary proceedings. They said the prime minister planned to continue speaking to the nation during his self-isolation.
Johnson said he wanted to improve his fitness, and in the summer he introduced a national campaign to tackle obesity after acknowledging that he was "too fat."
