handle the media scrutiny. She told ITV that she had become “collateral damage” while the prime minister seemed to have escaped unscathed.

She said that when she called his personal number, she was passed to someone who spoke Chinese. Another time, she said, Mr. Johnson hung up the moment he heard her voice.

She told the broadcaster that she felt she had been “brushed off” as if she was “one of Kennedy’s girlfriends showing up to his White House switchboard.” (She apparently was referring to President John F. Kennedy.)

The show suggests, according to ITV News, that the pair had a four-year affair.

Ms. Arcuri did not directly admit to an affair with Mr. Johnson, according to the broadcaster, but said that “half the people” who reached out to her after theother members from the family tested positive for Covid 19. At this point, the district administration had already put 27 members of the family under institutional quarantine. On March 26, three more positive cases were reported from the same family.

Chaudhary assured citizens that the district administration is under high alert and citizens should not panic and comply with the safety guidelines put forth by them.

