Boris Johnson remains "under close surveillance during the initial phase" of his recovery. According to his spokesperson, the British Prime Minister, who had left intensive care on Thursday evening where he had been since Monday, has been transferred to another department of London's St Thomas hospital.
"I don't think you can say he's out of the woods," said his father Stanley Johnson on the BBC. "He must rest. As I understand it, he was transferred from intensive care to a recovery unit, "added the former European official.
"He must take the time. I can't believe you would get away with it and go straight back to Downing Street and take over the reins without a period of readjustment, ”insisted Stanley Johnson again.
"He almost sacrificed himself"
While Boris Johnson has been criticized for having played down the crisis for a long time, his father hails his son's work. "He almost sacrificed himself. We have to make sure we play the game right now. ”
Diagnosed positive at Covid-19 in late March, Boris Johnson is to date the only head of government of a great power to have been infected by the virus, which has killed nearly 8,000 people in the United Kingdom, one of the European countries hardest hit.
It is the head of diplomacy, Dominic Raab, who ensures the interim in his absence.
The government warned Thursday that preparations must be made for an extension of the confinement, which is expected to last three weeks until Monday, in the face of the worsening pandemic in the country. If no formal decision is expected before the end of next week, the message hammered by the authorities is not to relax the social distancing measures adopted, especially during the long spring weekend of Easter.
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But Housing Minister Robert Jenrick was hit on the headlines of several newspapers on Friday for visiting his parents, some 60 miles from his home, despite official messages to stay at home. On Twitter, he defended himself by claiming to have brought medication to his parents, aged and in quarantine, and to have respected the rules of social distancing.
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