Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care on Monday, a dramatic new development in a coronavirus pandemic, the toll of which has started to rise again in certain European countries and has crossed the 10,000 death mark in the United States. After assuring that Boris Johnson remained "in control" of the government, Downing Street was forced to specify that his foreign minister Dominic Raab had finally been asked "to replace him where necessary".
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The United Kingdom has become one of the most severely affected countries in Europe. Emmanuel Macron gave Monday his "support" to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, reached of the coronavirus and transferred to intensive care, wishing him "to overcome this ordeal quickly". "All my support for Boris Johnson, his family and the British people at this difficult time. I wish him to overcome this ordeal quickly," tweeted the French president.
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US President Donald Trump wished his "very good friend" a speedy recovery, but was quite dismal. "When you are placed in intensive care, it is very very serious with this disease," he insisted. With more than 50,000 people testing positive for Covid-19 and 5,373 deaths, the United Kingdom has become one of the most severely affected countries in Europe.