Carrie Symonds took a double hit after she was banned from seeing mom and Boris

Boris Johnson’s fiancé Carrie Symonds is very pregnant and cannot see both the Prime Minister and her own mother, who is over 70 years old and vulnerable to the virus.

The 32-year-old former political adviser, who is expecting her first child with Johnson in early summer, has self-isolated at her South London home.

She tweeted over the weekend how she had been bedridden with coronavirus symptoms, but was now on the mend.

A friend told the Daily Telegraph that Ms. Symonds was “distraught” and “crying” when the prime minister was rushed to the hospital on Sunday night.

She described how she was “deeply upset and concerned about her well-being.”

It was thought that he could not even be with his mother, Josephine Mcaffee, at his home in Camberwell as he is in a vulnerable group due to his age.

However, it is suggested that Ms. Symonds has been able to speak to her partner after No10 confirmed that Johnson is able to contact those she needs.

It is also understood that the Prime Minister nominated Ms. Symonds as her closest relative, which means that it will be her responsibility to make decisions on her behalf in case she needs ventilator treatment.

The couple have barely seen each other in weeks, with Johnson giving daily conferences and holding endless meetings to discuss the growing pandemic before testing positive.

Her hourly meetings a day dropped to zero when she began to isolate herself in her apartment over number 11.

Ms. Symonds, who previously served as head of communications for the Conservative Party headquarters, previously shared a photograph of herself with the dog Dilyn.

Initially it was understood that he had stayed with his mother in East Sheen, southwest London.

But that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.

However, the prime minister’s condition was “improving” yesterday, the ministers said as he prepared for a fourth night in hospital, and his third in intensive care.

He was sitting up in bed talking to his doctors in a sign that he was beginning to recover from Covid-19.

However, he could still be out of work for weeks after his brush with the assassin bug that has already depressed him for nearly fifteen days.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak said Mr. Johnson was receiving “excellent care” from his team at St Thomas Hospital in South London, as fears subsided about the Prime Minister’s health.

Downing Street said it remained “clinically stable”, with reports that its “persistent” temperature had begun to drop.

Johnson was being treated with oxygen and authorities said he was in a “good mood” and responding to treatment.

But top doctors said her period in the hospital would deplete her strength as her body spends all of its energy fighting the disease.

Johnson’s official spokesman confirmed that the prime minister would follow doctors’ orders when it came to his recovery.

It is understood that you ignored your doctor’s advice before being hospitalized about resting regularly; instead, he continued working long hours and chairing meetings through a video link.

In yesterday’s No. 10, a rainbow poster, adopted as a symbol of hope during the pandemic, was placed in the window with the words: “We are in this together.”

At the daily press conference there yesterday, Mr. Sunak said: “The last thing about the hospital is that the Prime Minister remains in intensive care where his condition is improving. I can also tell him that he has sat up in bed and has been positively involved with the clinical team. “

Downing Street said last night: “The Prime Minister continues to make steady progress. He remains in intensive care. “Health Secretary Matt Hancock said:” The Prime Minister is sitting and his condition is improving. He will fight. “

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, now Johnson’s deputy, will chair the daily meeting of the coronavirus “war cabinet” this morning for the fourth day in a row.

But the potential duration of Johnson’s rehabilitation raises important questions about how the government will cope with the coronavirus spike in his absence.

Raab seemed surprised by his first public appearance at the helm earlier this week.

While he has the support of cabinet colleagues at the moment, some do not see him as a natural leader.

No10 has confirmed that the prime minister is not working at the hospital and that Raab is fully in charge in his absence, with the support of the cabinet.

Johnson’s spokesman said: “The prime minister is not working, he is in intensive care. He has the ability to contact those he needs. He follows the advice of his doctors at all times.”

But his return to full-time work could take weeks, at which point science and health chiefs hope the worst of the crisis is over.

Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert at the University of East Anglia, said: “I hope that most people who are ill will need at least a month, or possibly two, to be back long enough to be able to function.” . “

Professor Mike Grocott, a critical care medicine consultant at the University Hospital of Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, said: “On average, a person spending time in intensive care alone on oxygen therapy would have a decrease in physical function over a period … It is likely to last for weeks.

“A period of inactivity will have an effect on physical function, typically characterized by a loss of muscle mass and strength.”

“It depends on how severe the duration and extent of the disease was and the quality and amount of time spent on rehabilitation.”

Downing Street senior figures are working according to the general rule that the Prime Minister will require at least a week of recovery for every day spent in intensive care.

Preliminary evidence suggests that Johnson may have to stay in the hospital for up to a month before he can return to his Downing Street apartment.

Medical experts say he could spend at least a week of that in intensive care. Professor Duncan Young, professor of intensive care medicine at Oxford University, said the most common ICU duration for a coronavirus patient is four days, according to a study by the National Center for Intensive Care Audit and Research.

But he added: “A quarter stays eight or more days.”