UK PM rejects calls to fire top adviser for breaking coronavirus rules

The British government on Saturday rejected calls to sack top adviser Dominic Cummings over allegations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules by traveling across the country while displaying symptoms of the disease.

Cummings, who masterminded the 2016 campaign to leave the European Union during the Brexit referendum and announced he was suffering from coronavirus symptoms on March 30, traveled to his parents' home in Durham northeastern England on March 31, when a strict lockdown was already in place. It's more than 400 kilometers away from his London home.

In a televised address to the nation on March 23, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced unprecedented limits on where and how people can meet and gather during the continuing coronavirus. One of these regulations said anyone with symptoms must self-isolate in their own homes and that people over 70, as Cummings' parents are, are not allowed to receive visitors.

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