A British police officer wears a 3M face mask, with few police officers in Britain seen wearing face masks since the outbreak of the coronavirus, outside St Thomas' Hospital, in London, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care as his coronavirus symptoms persist, Thursday, April 9, 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care with the coronavirus but is improving and sitting up in bed, a senior government minister said Wednesday, as the U.K.
On Wednesday evening the government said Johnson, 55, was making “steady progress” and sitting up in bed. He has been receiving oxygen without being placed on a ventilator since his COVID-19 symptoms worsened and he was admitted to an ICU. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said there was no prospect of the lockdown being “lifted immediately or even imminently.”Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said “the curve is beginning to flatten.”
More than 7,000 people with the coronavirus have died in British hospitals, according to government figures. While the number of new confirmed cases has begun to plateau, deaths continue to rise and are approaching the peaks seen in Italy and Spain, the two countries with the greatest number of fatalities.
Johnson’s government was slower than those in some European countries to impose restrictions on daily life in response to the pandemic, leading his critics to accuse him of complacency. Britain also had one of the lowest numbers of hospital beds per capita in Western Europe before the pandemic, with only about 5,000 intensive-care beds nationwide.
“We’re still, by and large, wearing the same equipment that we were a few weeks ago,” said Dr. Nishant Joshi, an accident and emergency doctor who works in a hospital north of London.
Hey,whilst people drop like flies here all we get is boris is now sitting up in bed,thats very like interesting now can you try a little harder please.......
Unfortunately Johnson got what a lot of others more deserving won't get and the ass hole is no hero
LockDown
Ha! Called it... He’s gonna live but with that you’ll get more oppression out of it...just watch. He’ll probably use his story to push the fear envelop....
the reality is that these restrictons aren'ta choice but a necessity. But, with South Korean doctors reporting that a secondary infection is possible even for those who have survived a COVID infection, we might face another question: what if this goes on for a year or more?
The British Tory government and its conservatives are so US Republicanesque. They panned the coronavirus threat until it happened to one of THEM. Never empathy for others but only themselves when the sky is falling....
* As if it's a bloody question?
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