British PM Johnson says doctors prepared to announce his death as he battled coronavirus, ending up in intensive care, last month.
“The doctors had all sorts of arrangements for what to do if things went badly wrong,” Johnson said.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson displaying his Get Well Soon cards sent in by children while he was ill with COVID-19, at his office in 10 Downing Street, central London on Tuesday, April 28.He admitted he initially brushed off the seriousness of the situation when he tested positive for the virus in late March, saying he was “in denial” and kept working. But he was thankful that his doctors “forced” him to go to the hospital.
When his health deteriorated further, Johnson was moved into intensive care, shocking the nation in the midst of a"The bad moment came when it was 50-50 whether they were going to have to put a tube down my windpipe," Johnson said."That was when it got a bit . . . they were starting to think about how to handle it presentationally.
Johnson is now back to his regular duties at 10 Downing Street and is, once again, in control of the country’s response to the outbreak that has claimed 28,131 lives in the U.K. as of Saturday — a death toll that’s just slightly lower than in hard-hit Italy. He is expected to reveal his plan for how the nation will gradually exit the lockdown and restart its economy later this week.
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