Prime Minister Boris Johnson, hospitalized for a week because of the new coronavirus, thanked the public health service, the NHS, for saving his life on Sunday. "I can never thank enough" NHS staff, said Boris Johnson, in his first official statement since he was hospitalized in intensive care on Monday. "I owe them my life," he added.
According to the British press, the 55-year-old conservative leader, who left intensive care Thursday evening, returns to the hospital by doing sudokus and watching films, like the romantic comedy Love Actually. Her 32-year-old fiancée Carrie Symonds, pregnant, sent her copies of her ultrasound.
"The Prime Minister continues to make good progress," said Interior Minister Priti Patel at the government's daily press conference on Saturday, calling, however, not to forget "the seriousness of the national emergency". revealed by "the raw numbers".
Almost 10,000 dead in the UK
Diagnosed positive at Covid-19 at the end of March, Boris Johnson is to date the only head of government of a great power to have been infected by the virus, which left almost 10,000 dead in the United Kingdom, one of the European countries the hardest hit.
The Prime Minister's thanks come at a time when discontent is brewing among the nursing staff, who in particular denounce the cruel lack of protective equipment.
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The largest union of nurses, the Royal Association of Nurses (RCN), advised caregivers to refuse, "as a last resort", to work if they faced a severe lack of protective equipment, while realizing that this was "a difficult step to take" for them.
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"For the nursing staff, it goes completely against their instincts," union spokesman PA told British agency PA, "But their safety should not be compromised."
