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Swedish Crown Princess tests Covid positive
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Stockholm, March 12 (TIWN) Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and her spouse Prince Daniel have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, it was announced.
The royal couple went into self-isolation together with their two children -- Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar -- on Wednesday after exhibiting cold symptoms, the court said.
"The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel are showing minor symptoms but are doing well under the circumstances," the court said in a statement, adding that tests on Thursday had confirmed they had Covid-19.
Contract tracing, under the auspices of the royal family's doctor, were underway.
The couple are not the first royal family members to catch Covid-19, as Victoria's younger brother Carl-Philip and his wife Sofia have already had the virus.
Sweden, which has become famous for its controversial softer approach to curbing the Covid-19, had as of Thursday recorded over 707,000 confirmed cases and 13,111 associated deaths in the country of 10.3 million.
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