Prime Minister Boris Johnson was making “very good progress” in his recovery in hospital from coronavirus, officials said, as the number of deaths in Britain from the disease approached the grim milestone of 10,000.
The 55-year-old leader was spending his second full day out of intensive care at London’s St Thomas’Hospital, where he has been able to take short walks between periods of rest, according to Downing Street.
“The Prime Minister continues to make very good progress,” a Downing Street spokeswoman said in a short statement.
He was hospitalised on Sunday over concerns he still had a cough and high temperature after spending 10 days in self-isolation with the virus. A day later he was transferred to the intensive care unit as his condition deteriorated.
Johnson left the unit on Thursday evening in “extremely good spirits” and waving at staff “in gratitude”, his spokesman has said.
His time in hospital was unprecedented for a British prime minister during a national emergency in modern times, rattling the country.
