‘I owe them my life’:UK PM Boris Johnson, thanks hospital staff

Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated that he owes his life to the staff of Britain’s state-run National Health Service, in his first remarks after being discharged from medical care for treatment for COVID-19.

Johnson, 55, was taken to St Thomas’s Hospital in central London a week ago, affected by persistent symptoms of the disease affected by the new coronavirus. On April 6 he was moved into medical care, where he remained until April 9.

“I can’t thank them enough. I owe them my life,” Johnson said of the staff at the hospital, which is direct across the Thames River from the house of Parliament. The remarks were delivered to journalists and confirmed by his office on Sunday.

Johnson was back on his feet by Friday, taking short walks between days of rest, in what his office reported because of the early stage of recovery.

Britain’s COVID-19 deaths approx. 10,000 on Saturday, the fifth-highest state number globally after officials reported another 917 hospital deaths.

In its recent official update on Johnson’s condition, Downing Street said he “continues to create great progress”.

Priti Patel, the interior minister, said in Saturday’s daily government news instructions that he needed time to rest and recover before returning to work.