British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, in an interview with The Sun, that the British government has developed an emergency plan in anticipation of his death, when his health has deteriorated while in critical care and he is grappling with an emerging coronavirus (Covid-19).
Johnson, 55, returned to work last Monday, a month after he was tested positive for HIV. He spent 10 days in isolation at Downing Street from late March, but was transferred to St. Thomas Hospital in London, where he received oxygen therapy and spent three nights in intensive care.
"They had a strategy to deal with a scenario along the lines of Stalin's death. It was a difficult moment, which I will not deny," the newspaper quoted Johnson as saying.
He explained that during the period when he was in self-isolation at Downing Street, he resisted the idea of going to the hospital. But I really felt unwell, then I was told that I had to go to the hospital, and I said that I really didn't want to go to the hospital. It didn't seem to me a good move, but they insisted, and on reviewing that they were right to force me to go. ”
Johnson entered the hospital on the fifth of last April, and was supplied with oxygen through a face mask and a tube through the nose, then transferred to intensive care the next day, and at one point the doctors discussed putting Johnson on a respirator.
"The doctors had all the arrangements for what to do if things went down badly," said Johnson.
After Johnson's exit, St. Thomas Hospital said he was happy to take care of the Prime Minister, but he did not provide any details of the severity of his illness other than that he had been treated with intensive care.
Johnson: "I was in denial after the injury, and I resisted the idea of going to the hospital."