LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was improving on Thursday in intensive care where he is fighting COVID-19 as his government extended its bank overdraft facility and reviewed the most stringent shutdown in peacetime history.
FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference on the novel coronavirus, in London, Britain March 3,2020 Frank Augstein/Pool through REUTERS
Johnson, 55, was admitted to St Thomas’ medical facility on Sunday night with a persistent high temperature and cough and was hurried to intensive care on Monday. He has actually gotten oxygen assistance but not been put on a ventilator.
” Things are improving for him,” his culture minister, Oliver Dowden, said on Thursday. “He’s stable, enhancing, sat up and engaged with medical staff.”
U.S. President Donald Trump stated Johnson seemed doing “better” after what he referred to as a “hard bout”.
With a prime minister in intensive care, the British federal government was dealing with two major issues: how to fund a vast boost in state costs to support the shuttered economy, and