By Jake Kanter International TV Editor BBC newsreader George Alagiah has become one of the first British television stars to test positive for coronavirus.
Alagiah, who is also currently fighting his second bout of bowel cancer, revealed his diagnosis to BBC News having not been on-air in recent weeks.
He said that he has had a mild dose of the illness, which has so far killed a total of 1,789 people in the UK, and is now working towards recovery.
Alagiah added that his experience with cancer has strengthened his response to the virus. “If I can live with cancer, I can certainly live with Covid-19,” he told the BBC. “I don’t want to trivialize because I seem to have had a mild dose, but actually, the very fact that we are living with
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