F1 star Norris tests positive for Covid-19

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VIDEO SHOWS: FILE FOOTAGE OF MCLAREN DRIVER LANDO NORRIS. SCREENGRABS OF STATEMENT POSTED TO TWITTER BY NORRIS

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1. MCLAREN DRIVER LANDO NORRIS ARRIVING FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS

2. NORRIS BEING INTERVIEWED

WOKING NEAR LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (FEBRUARY 13, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)

3. DRIVERS LANDO NORRIS (BLUE TOP) AND CARLOS SAINZ (WHITE TOP) WITH CAR AND ZAK BROWN

4. DRIVERS LANDO NORRIS (BLUE TOP) AND CARLOS SAINZ (WHITE TOP) WITH CAR AND TEAM OFFICIALS

5. SIDE SHOT OF NORRIS BEING INTERVIEWED

6. NORRIS BEING INTERVIEWED (NOT A SOUNDBITE)

INTERNET (JANUARY 5, 2021) (SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - ACCESS ALL) (MUTE)

7. SCREENGRAB OF STATEMENT POSTED TO NORRIS' TWITTER ACCOUNT SAYING:

"Hi everyone, I hope you are keeping well. Yesterday I lost my sense of taste and smell so immediately I self isolated and took a test. It's come back as positive, so I've told everyone that I've been in contact with and will be self isolating for the next 14 days."

8. SCREENGRAB OF STATEMENT POSTED TO NORRIS' TWITTER ACCOUNT SAYING:

"Hi everyone, I hope you are keeping well. Yesterday I lost my sense of taste and smell so immediately I self isolated and took a test. It's come back as positive, so I've told everyone that I've been in contact with and will be self isolating for the next 14 days. I feel alright and have no other symptoms but I just wanted to let you all know. Take care."

STORY: McLaren driver Lando Norris has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating, his Formula One team said on Tuesday (January 5).

McLaren said in a statement that Norris had returned a positive result on Monday in Dubai, where he is on a holiday before the team's training camp.

Norris, 21, said that he took a COVID-19 test after losing his sense of taste and smell.

"I feel alright and have no other symptoms," he wrote on Twitter.

Norris is the fourth F1 driver to test positive for the novel coronavirus after seven-times champion Lewis Hamilton, Mexican Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll of Racing Point (now Aston Martin) returned positive tests last season.

Norris finished ninth in the drivers standings last season.

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