{"id":321920,"date":"2020-04-07T03:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T03:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321920"},"modified":"2020-04-07T03:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T03:28:05","slug":"uk-pm-boris-johnson-moved-to-icu-as-covid-19-symptoms-worsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uk-pm-boris-johnson-moved-to-icu-as-covid-19-symptoms-worsen\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM Boris Johnson moved to ICU as COVID-19 symptoms worsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321557 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/boris-johnson-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/boris-johnson-1.jpg 451w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/boris-johnson-1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/boris-johnson-1-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 more than a week ago, has been moved to the intensive care unit (ICU) after his condition worsened on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Boris Johnson was admitted to St Thomas&#8217; Hospital in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the statement from Downing Street spokesperson: &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSince Sunday evening, the Prime Minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas\u2019 Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The PM has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is the First Secretary of State, to deputise for him where necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The PM is receiving excellent care, and thanks all NHS staff for their hard work and dedication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The UK Prime Minister earlier in a tweet said, \u201cLast night, on the advice of my doctor, I went into hospital for some routine tests as I\u2019m still experiencing coronavirus symptoms. I\u2019m in good spirits and keeping in touch with my team, as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Boris Johnson in a tweet thanked the National Health Service (NHS) staff for taking care of him and others in this difficult time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Johnson had been quarantined at residence since being diagnosed with COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 more than a week ago, has been moved to the intensive care unit (ICU) after his condition worsened on Monday. Boris Johnson was admitted to St Thomas&#8217; Hospital in London. According to the statement from Downing Street spokesperson: &#8211; \u201cSince Sunday evening, the Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12253,12857,1783],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321923,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321920\/revisions\/321923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}