British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Monday taken to the intensive care unit of the hospital he was admitted to in order to treat h...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Monday taken to the intensive care unit of the hospital he was admitted to in order to treat his coronavirus infection, BBC reported. Johnson was taken into intensive care around 7 pm GMT (12.30 am Indian Standard Time on Tuesday) and is conscious, the news network said.
A spokesperson for Johnson said he was moved to the ICU on the advice of his medical team and is in “excellent health”. Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise “where necessary”, the spokesperson said.
A statement by 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister’s official residence, read: “The prime minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus. Over the course of [Monday] afternoon, the condition of the prime minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the intensive care unit at the hospital.”
The prime minister was admitted to hospital on Sunday evening with “persistent symptoms”. He was given oxygen on Monday, but was not put on a ventilator, BBC reported.
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