FOREIGN Secretary Liz Truss has tested positive for Covid ahead of her trip to Kiev for talks on Russia.
Ms Truss took to Twitter to announce her result, and said she will isolate at home.
She was due to go to Kyiv, Ukraine, with Boris Johnson before the end of this week.
The PM today ordered Vladimir Putin to “step back from the brink” of war to avoid a brutal bloodbath.
But the Foreign Secretary now needs to quarantine for at least five days, meaning the trip must be delayed to Sunday, February 6 at the earliest.
She wrote on Twitter: “I tested positive for Covid this evening.
“Thankfully I’ve had my three jabs and will be working from home while I isolate.”
Hours earlier, a mask-free Ms Truss sat inches away from the PM in the Commons.
She sat next to both Home Secretary Priti Patel and Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
The PM is set to enter into showdown talks with Vladimir tonight.
He will warn the sabre-rattling Kremlin strongman he’ll be “bitterly and bloodily resisted” if he invades Ukraine.
Russia has marshalled more than 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine and is poised to march in.
Mr Johnson said an invasion would be “an absolute disaster for the world”.
Speaking in Essex, Mr Johnson said: “What I will say to President Putin, as I have said before, is that I think we really all need to step back from the brink.
“I think Russia needs to step back from the brink.
“I think that an invasion of Ukraine, any incursion into Ukraine beyond the territory that Russia has already taken in 2014 would be an absolute disaster for the world, and above all it would be a disaster for Russia.”
He said that any Russian invasion would be “bitterly and bloodily resisted” by the Ukrainian people.
A Cabinet Minister today said Germany are “dragging their feet” on retaliating against Russian aggression towards Ukraine, a Cabinet Minister blasted today.
Treasury Chief Sec Simon Clarke railed against the sluggish EU response – and hailed Brexit for letting Britain swiftly hit back at Vladimir Putin.
