Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who suffers from Covid-19 disease, announced Friday that he will extend the quarantine he sees beyond the seven days recommended by health officials, until he no longer suffers from symptoms.
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"If I feel better (...) I always have one of the symptoms", "I always have temperature", "I must continue my quarantine", he said in a short video on Twitter, in which he calls on the British not to give in to the temptation not to stay at home this weekend, while the United Kingdom has been confined for 11 days.
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"We are working full-time on our program to overcome this virus," said the head of government, who has been working from his apartments in Downing street for a week, visibly a little haggard.
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Criticized over its handling of the crisis, the British government has promised to run 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month and inaugurated at midday on Friday a field hospital in London, with an initial capacity of 500 beds which can be increased to 4,000. According to the latest report published on Thursday, the Covid-19 killed nearly 3,000 people in British hospitals.