Coronavirus: Testing rolled out for frontline NHS staff
In a video on Twitter, Boris Johnson says he is self-isolating and will continue to work from home.
The BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh says those at the top of the NHS and ministers would strongly reject such claims and point to the huge work under way to meet the challenge of the epidemic. Originally only seriously ill patients in hospital were being tested but this was later extended to very ill patients.
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