Prime Minister Boris Johnson, suffering from the new coronavirus and hospitalized for almost a week, has made "very great progress", one of his spokesmen announced on Saturday.
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In the "initial healing phase"
The 55-year-old conservative leader left intensive care Thursday where he had been since Monday. He has been transferred to another department at London's St Thomas hospital where he is placed "under close surveillance during the initial phase of his recovery", according to previous statements. "The Prime Minister continues to make great progress," said a spokesman on Saturday. The day before, Boris Johnson's services had announced that he was again "walking a bit". "His morale remains very good," he had previously indicated, adding that the Prime Minister was in the "initial phase" of his recovery and that his return to executive positions would depend on "the opinion of his team. medical ".
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Diagnosed positive at Covid-19 at the end of March, Boris Johnson is to date the only head of government of a great power to have been infected by the virus, which left nearly 9,000 dead in the United Kingdom, one of the European countries hardest hit.
He's "not out of the woods yet"
It is the head of diplomacy, Dominic Raab, who ensures the interim in the absence of Boris Johnson, who is "not out of the woods yet" and must "take the time" to recover from his infection at Covid-19, his father, Stanley Johnson estimated on Friday on the BBC . "I can't believe you would get away with it and go straight back to Downing Street and take over the reins without a period of readjustment," he added.
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The government is due to rule next week on a possible extension of the containment, which began on March 23 and in principle planned to last three weeks until Monday. If no formal decision is expected before the end of next week, the message hammered by the authorities is not to relax the social distancing measures adopted, especially during the long spring weekend of Easter.