The true extent of Boris Johnson’s Coronavirus condition is becoming apparent. According to a report by Harry Cole of the Daily Mail, staff at St Thomas’ Hospital were expecting Boris Johnson to be rushed to hospital three days before he was finally admitted and they only realised that he wasn’t coming on the 2nd of April when they saw him clapping for the NHS that evening on their television screens. The report also says that the doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital in London were wearing full protective clothing on that Thursday, April 2 after managers warned that they could expect Mr Johnson to arrive at short notice.
Mr Johnson is not continuing his recovery at Chequers and it is finally being conceded just how ill the Prime Minister had been by the time he was taken into intensive care on Monday. Minister’s aides and friends are now saying privately that he should have gone into hospital much earlier. One said, “It was clear he was in a terrible state all week”.
On Saturday April the 4th a check-up on Boris Johnson quickly established that Mr Johnson’s condition had worsened. Martin Reynolds immediately cleared the PM’s diary completely and by Sunday afternoon Mr Johnson was taken to hospital. Within minutes of arrival, the PM was put on oxygen via a tube through his nose. Despite the No10 team playing the situation down Mr Johnson’s condition worsened throughout Sunday evening and Monday.
In a bizarre complication, a poor mobile phone reception at the hospital was limiting communication with Mr Johnson warned not to use the public wi-fi for security reasons. Mr Johnson was omitted to intensive care at 7pm on Monday. A source in the Mail has said that moving the PM was a “big operation that cannot be done quickly… so the decision was made to move him sooner rather than later’, adding: ‘We don’t want to do this stuff at 2am”.
Mr Johnson received a number of calls in that early period in intensive care. One NHS source said “the switchboard went into meltdown. First the White House rings and offers to send drugs to treat the PM, then a series of Chinese firms call on behalf of their government also offering to send drugs”. None of the offers was accepted. Mr Johnson had a better first night in intensive care than was expected and his temperature began to fall on Tuesday morning. However, he endured three long nights before he was well enough to leave the unit on Thursday afternoon. When Mr Johnson left ICU PM was described by one hospital insider as “euphoric” and was waving at doctors and nurses on his way out of ICU. The source also states that, incredibly Mr Johnson again joined in the applause for NHS workers at 8pm on Thursday – from his hospital bed.
Current Affairs Correspondent | My name is Oliver Down I am 22, and a staunch brexiteer. I am a Bristolian lad who studied politics in Leicester. I believe in free speech and accurate journalism and I won’t be afraid to give you “the other side” of the story!
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