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LONDON: Britain’s Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said he was concerned about Boris Johnson’s life when the prime minister was hospitalized with COVID-19 in April.
Raab replaced Johnson for nearly a month while the prime minister recovered. Johnson first fell ill with the coronavirus in late March and ended up in intensive care at one point.
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“I was really worried that we might lose him and I was worried about Carrie pregnant with Wilf,” Raab told the Conservative Party virtual conference later on Saturday (October 3), the Times reported.
Johnson’s fiancee, Carrie Symonds, was pregnant with their child at the time.
Raab’s comments come hours after US President Donald Trump was transferred to a military hospital near Washington after testing positive for the virus. Trump will work in a special hospital suite for the next few days, in what the White House called an injunction.
With the US presidential election a month away, Raab told the newspaper that he had never met Trump’s Democratic rival for the White House, former Vice President Joe Biden, or any member of Biden’s senior team.
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But he said he had good relations with high-ranking Democrats on Capitol Hill and that the election result would not affect relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Times reported.
“I think the strength of the friendship between Britain and America is in great shape, whatever the November outcome,” he told the newspaper.
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