Eleven people who attended a 15-person wedding have tested positive for Covid-19, despite none of them showing any symptoms of the disease.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said his friends attended the ceremony, but he was not there. He told Radio 4 that one of the wedding guests got a coronavirus test ahead of a hospital procedure and after receiving a positive result, the other people at the ceremony were tested for Covid-19 too.
Mr Shapps said: "I wasn't there myself. One person afterwards was tested, not because they were ill but because they had a minor procedure in hospital - they turned out to be positive. "Everybody else has now taken tests, 11 came back positive and none of them feel ill. "That is the new very virulent variant