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(CNN) - Dominic Raab, UK Foreign Secretary, provided a brief update on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's health at the daily briefing from Downing St.
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“The Prime Minister is receiving the best care from the excellent medical team at St Thomas Hospital. It was stable overnight. He received standard oxygen treatment. He is breathing without help. It has not required mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory assistance. He remains in a good mood, ”said Raab.
Raab went on to say that the prime minister, "is not just the prime minister, for all of us in the cabinet he is not only our boss, he is also a colleague and also our friend."
Raab ended his update on the Prime Minister's health by saying: "If I know anything about this Prime Minister, it is that he is a fighter."
Secretary Raab is replacing Johnson who was hospitalized for coronavirus and is currently in the intensive care unit.
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