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Boris Johnson has revealed that the British Government came to have a "Stalin-style" contingency plan for his possible death from coronavirus, following his admission to the ICU of St. Thomas Hospital where he needed "liters and liters of oxygen". In an interview with The Sun , the "premier" admits that his situation was more serious than Downing Street admitted to the media and thanked doctors Nick Price and Nick Hart for saving his life (his newborn son, Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas, is called thus in gratitude to the doctors ).

Johnson's first interview after recovering from the coronavirus is released on the day the UK, with 28,131 victims to date, can overtake Italy as the country with the highest death toll from the epidemic in Europe. The "premier" is receiving harsh criticism for the distractions of Brexit and his private life that made him react with notable delay with respect to other European countries.

In his interview with The Sun, Johnson assures that his desire to "get the UK back on its feet" and the imminence of the birth of his sixth son (his girlfriend Carrie Symonds sent him the ultrasounds by phone) served to teach him in the three days he spent in the ICU with oxygen assistance, although without the need to connect him to a ventilator.

" I know he was not in good physical shape ," admits Johnson, recalling the moment he tested positive for the coronavirus test on March 26 and the 10 days of isolation he spent at 11 Downing Street. "But it was hard to believe how my health could deteriorate so much in such a short time."

The "premier" does not go into detail about the alleged lack of medical care while he was confined, but prefers, however, to praise the work of the doctors and nurses of the National Health Service (NHS) "who did everything they have to do when things were going extremely wrong. " According to NHS statistics, one in three patients admitted to the hospital with coronavirus respiratory failure may die within a few days.

"I was not in a particularly bright state, but I was aware that there were contingency plans (for his possible death)," said Johnson, 55, recalling his critical moments at the hospital. "They put on a mask and gave me liters and liters of oxygen for a long time until my nose regained color."

"The worst moment was when there was a 50% chance that they would put a tube on me (connect to a respirator)," admitted the premier. "All the indicators went wrong and I asked myself:" How am I going to get out of this? "

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