Boris Johnson has now tested negative for the coronavirus and his spokesman has denied that the government had downplayed the seriousness of Johnson's condition. 9News
spokesman says the British Prime Minister is continuing his recovery from COVID-19 and, on the advice of his doctors, is "not immediately returning to work."on Sunday and then went to Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, around 65km northwest of the capital.and denied that the government had downplayed the seriousness of Johnson's condition.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson records a video message on Easter Sunday at Number 10 after release from the hospital in London, England. Johnson was admitted to St. Thomas' on April 5 after his condition worsened and he was transferred the following day to its intensive care unit, where he received oxygen but was not put onto a ventilator.
He spent three nights there before moving back to a regular hospital ward. After leaving the hospital, Johnson expressed his gratitude to the staff of the National Health Service for saving his life when it could have "gone either way."Police officers patrol around Chequers, the country residence of Britain's Prime Minister in Aylesbury, England.
"In the last seven days I have, of course, seen the pressure that the NHS is under. I've seen the personal courage, not just of the doctors, the nurses, but of everyone - the cleaners, the cooks, the health care workers of every description, physios, radiographers, pharmacists who've kept coming to work, kept putting themselves in harm's way, kept risking this deadly virus.
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