Prime Minister Boris Johnson “recovers” after being victim of the coronavirus, said a Minister of State, and transmits his instructions to the government at the time when it is criticized for its response to the pandemic. Leaving the hospital a week ago, “the Prime Minister is recovering well. He is in a good mood,” Michael Gove told Sky News on Sunday. The 55-year-old conservative leader “had the opportunity to speak to Dominic Raab”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs who replaced him during his convalescence. The latter transmitted “the Prime Minister’s instructions to the rest of the government” during a conference call on Saturday morning, said Gove.
The United Kingdom is one of the countries in Europe most affected by Covid-19. The number of people with the new coronavirus who died in hospital reached 15,464, according to the latest report released by the government on Saturday. But these daily government reports are criticized because they only include hospital deaths of patients tested positive, excluding those who lost their lives in retirement homes or homes.
Organizations representing retirement homes report between 4,000 and 7,500 deaths in these establishments.
The British government decided on Thursday to extend the containment introduced on March 23 by at least three weeks and is not yet planning to exit.
“The number of deaths remains very worrying,” said Michael Gove. “The rates of infections and mortality are flattening, but we are not absolutely certain that we are already on a downward trajectory”, provided that the government fixes itself before relaxing the containment measures.
Since the start of the pandemic, the government has been accused of delaying response, and the Sunday Times returned to the charge on Sunday, accusing the government of having ignored scientists’ alerts and calls to stock up on medical suits and Boris Johnson for missing several crisis meetings devoted to the virus.
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