Boris Johnson leaves the hospital

“It could have ended anyway.” – Boris Johnson thanks the doctors and nurses to whom he owes his life in a video message.

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Britain is experiencing a change of emotions in the Corona crisis. Last week, Boris Johnson’s fate was at stake after the British prime minister with the coronavirus spent three nights in intensive care and had to be treated with oxygen. On Easter Sunday, Johnson was able to leave the hospital and retired to the Prime Minister’s country house in Checkers for convalescence. Before that, he addressed the population with an emotional video in which he thanked the doctors and the nursing staff for saving his life. “It could have ended anyway,” Johnson admitted.

There are already more than 10,000 dead.

Johnson was confident that the country would also defeat the virus. The Prime Minister acted as a general who reported first-hand on the situation at the front. He expressly thanked a New Zealand nurse and a Portuguese nurse who had been by his side during the critical hours. And Pathos praised the use of radiologists, pharmacists, and the National Health Service’s (NHS) cleaning and kitchen staff, who were the “beating heart of the country” and “invincible.” He also thanked the population who had observed the curfew despite the warm Easter weather.

However, shortly after Johnson was discharged from the hospital, the general public received the sad news that the UK had officially crossed the threshold of 10,000 people who tested positive for the Corona virus and died in the hospital. He Curve With the increasing number of deaths, there is fear that the United Kingdom will have a similar trajectory to that of Italy, which has around 20,000 deaths and is comparable in population to Britain with its approximately 66 million inhabitants, approximately three weeks ago. .

Speaking to the BBC, the infectologist Jeremy Farrar warned, looking at the numbers, that Britain was on its way to becoming the most affected country in Europe. However, it is more positive that the rate of new infections has slowed down recently and that the increased capacities of the National Health Service have not yet been exhausted.

With the aura of a war hero

However, the situation remains tense. Johnson will soon have to decide whether to extend the Lodge’s state of emergency at Checkers, though a stay in intensive care requires a long recovery period. But his deputy foreign minister, Dominic Raab, never had the authority to make delicate decisions, which is why a power vacuum really developed. Johnson, on the other hand, now surrounds the aura of a war hero after his fight against the crown virus, which adds a dramatic chapter to the dazzling politician’s biography.

The prime minister, who until recently was considered a polarizing figure, appears to have rallied the population behind him in concerns about his health. Critical questions will reach him and his government sooner or later. Johnson and other officials and ministers not only appear to be infected because they do not comply with social distancing rules at the government headquarters in Downing Street. Rather, there is also a charge that the government slept during the acquisition of crown evidence and waited too long compared to other European countries to impose the curfew, and thus contributed to the escalation of the crisis.