Boris Johnson health update: PM 'sitting up in bed' as coronavirus condition 'improving'
BORIS JOHNSON is recovering well in intensive care, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealing the Prime Minister is sitting up in bed and engaging with others.
Boris Johnson: Sunak says Prime Minister’s ‘condition improving’
Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital on Sunday night where his condition worsened and he was then moved to intensive care on Monday night but he did not need ventilation. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said the Prime Minister remains in intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital but is "improving" and has been sitting up in bed and engaging with his clinical team. It comes a total of 6,483 people in the UK have died from COVID-19 up by 828 in the past 24 hours.
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Speaking at Downing Street, Mr Sunak said: "The latest from the hospital is that the Prime Minister remains in intensive care where his condition is improving.
"I can also tell you that he has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team.
"The Prime Minister is not only my colleague and my boss but also my friend and my thoughts are with him and his family."
Downing Street said earlier today that Mr Johnson is responding to treatment and in good spirits.
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Mr Johnson was said to no longer be working while following the advice of doctors and receiving just the "standard oxygen treatment" and "breathing without any other assistance".
When asked about further specifics about his condition or treatment, the spokesman said the update includes all the information the PM's medical team "considers to be clinically relevant".
As Johnson battled the novel coronavirus in hospital, the United Kingdom was entering what scientists said was the deadliest phase of the outbreak and grappling with the question of when to lift the lockdown.
Inside the Government, ministers were debating how long the world's fifth-largest economy could afford to be shut down, and the long-term implications of one of the most stringent set of emergency controls in peacetime history.
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Mr Sunak said the Government will hold a COBRA meeting to discuss how it should deal with a review on lockdown measures.
He said: "There will be a Cobra meeting tomorrow chaired by the first secretary of state involving the devolved administrations to talk about the approach to the review.
"We committed that there would be a review in and around three weeks.
"That review will be based on the evidence and the data provided by SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies)."
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The Chancellor added Britain's economy and people's livelihoods will take a hit due to the coronavirus outbreak adding that the Government had taken the right steps to get through the crisis.
He said: "This will have a significant impact on our economy, and not in an abstract way.
"It will have an impact on people's jobs and their livelihoods.
"I believe we're doing the right things," he added. "I can't stand here and say there isn't going to be hardship ahead, there is ... but I'm confident we will get through it."