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Boris Johnson is breathing without a ventilator and remains in “good spirits” while being treated in extensive look after coronavirus signs, Downing Street has actually said.
The prime minister was transferred to the intensive care system at St Thomas’ Health Center in London on Monday night as his condition worsened.
On Tuesday afternoon, his main representative stated: ” The prime minister has actually been steady overnight and remains in excellent spirits. He is getting standard oxygen treatment and is breathing without any other treatment.
” He has actually not needed mechanical ventilation or non-invasive breathing assistance.”
No.10 said Johnson has not been diagnosed with pneumonia, which impacts some Covid-19 patients, but has actually been moved to extensive care ” as a precautionary step in the event that he were to need ventilation.”
The spokesman refused to state whether the PM was able to sit up and talk or utilize his phone to interact with authorities, who are working from No.10, or his pregnant bride-to-be Carrie Symonds.
Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary and very first secretary of state, is presently standing in for the prime minister.
Johnson has actually sent out Raab a message stating he wanted him to presume a few of the PM’s respons