The british prime minister, Boris Johnson, is in recovery. But he remains hospitalized in the intensive care unit at St. Thomas Hospital in London.
It shall notify the british finance minister, Rishi Sunak, on Wednesday.
He sits up in bed and talking with the doctors, adding Sunak.
Johnson has now spent three nights in the hospital – two of them in the intensive care unit.
two weeks ago he was confirmed infected with the coronavirus. On Sunday evening he was admitted to the hospital with high fever and cough. On Monday, he was transferred to the intensive care.
A spokesman for Johnson said that the prime minister “respond to treatment” and is “of good courage.”
the prime minister works not from sygesengen, but can take contact to his ministers, if it becomes necessary, the spokesman said.
The 55-year-old Boris Johnson has been given extra oxygen in hospital, but has not been in the respirator.
He has appointed foreign minister Dominic Raab, who is also deputy prime minister, to stand at the head of the government, if Johnson himself does not hold office.
Raab said Wednesday that he expects the prime minister will soon be back in the office in Downing Street.
The past day, the number of deaths coronasmittede in the Uk has increased by 938. It communicates to the nhs, the NHS.
This is a total of 7097 people so far died, while they were infected with the coronavirus.
The nhs has tested over 230.000 people to infection. Of them is 60.733 declared coronasmittede.
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