How is Boris Johnson doing? He already left the hospital on Sunday, one week after being admitted due to COVID-19.
Boris Johnson spent three nights in intensive care before resting in a ward on Thursday.
In a video message, he expressed his gratitude to the National Health Service (NHS) for saving his life. After his admission to the St. Thomas hospital in south London for a week of treatment, he went back Chequers to recuperate.
Johnson commended two nurses in particular for taking care of him in intensive care for 48 hours “when things could have gone either way." These nurses are Jenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal.
Johnson said he had left hospital “after a week in which the NHS has saved my life, no question”.
Meanwhile, the prime minister said that the UK was “making progress in this incredible national battle against coronavirus”.
Moreover, he said the country was mourning “every day those who are taken from us in such numbers, and the struggle is by no means over” but he argued progress was being made “because the British public formed a human shield around this country’s greatest national asset – our NHS”.
Johnson witnessed the pressures the NHS was under after staying in the hospital for seven days, including three in intensive care.
He had seen the “personal courage not just of the doctors and nurses but of everyone: the cleaners, the cooks, the healthcare workers of every description, physios, radiographers, pharmacists”.
He mentioned a list of nurses and doctors who took care of him by name, and gave special mention to Jenny and Luis, stating their care and interventions were "the reason in the end my body did start to get enough oxygen."
“That is how I also know that across this country, 24 hours a day, for every second of every hour, there are hundreds of thousands of NHS staff who are acting with the same care and thought and precision as Jenny and Luis,” he said.
“That is why we will defeat this coronavirus and defeat it together. We will win because our NHS is the beating heart of this country. It is the best of this country. It is unconquerable. It is powered by love.”
He also commended the public for practicing social distancing when “the whole natural world seems at its loveliest and the outdoors is so inviting”.
“The PM has been discharged from hospital to continue his recovery at Chequers. On the advice of his medical team, the PM will not be immediately returning to work. He wishes to thank everybody at St Thomas’ for the brilliant care he has received. All of his thoughts are with those affected by this illness," said a No 10 spokesman said.
The prime minister was taken into the hospital after persistent manifestation of his coronavirus symptoms, such as cough and a high temperature.
The government said he was not placed on a ventilator but had been receiving “standard oxygen treatment”.
He was sent to a hospital ward on Thursday after three nights in intensive care, and was described to be in “extremely good spirits”, according to Downing Street.
