{"id":2439,"date":"2020-04-12T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2020-04-12T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T10:13:42","slug":"owe-life-intensive-care-uks-johnson-praises-medics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/owe-life-intensive-care-uks-johnson-praises-medics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I owe them my life&#8217; &#8211; out of intensive care, UK&#8217;s Johnson praises medics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONDON &#8212; Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he owes his life to the staff of Britain\u2019s state-run National Health Service, in his first comments since being released from intensive care for treatment for COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2440\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2440 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boris-1586684240-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"508\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. London, Britain, March 25, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson, 55, was taken to St Thomas\u2019s Hospital in central London a week ago, suffering from persistent symptoms of the disease caused by the new coronavirus. On April 6 he was moved into intensive care, where he remained until April 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI can\u2019t thank them enough. I owe them my life,\u201d Johnson said of the staff at the hospital, which is just across the River Thames from the Houses of Parliament. The comments were released to journalists and confirmed by his office on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson was back on his feet by Friday, taking short walks between periods of rest, in what his office described as the early stage of recovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Britain\u2019s COVID-19 death toll neared 10,000 on Saturday, the fifth highest national number globally, after officials reported another 917 hospital deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its most recent official update on Johnson\u2019s condition, Downing Street said he \u201ccontinues to make very good progress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priti Patel, the interior minister, said in Saturday\u2019s daily government news briefing that he needed time to rest and recover before returning to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source\u00a0Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he owes his life to the staff of Britain\u2019s state-run National Health Service, in his first comments since being released from intensive care for treatment for COVID-19. Johnson, 55, was taken to St Thomas\u2019s Hospital in central London a week ago, suffering from persistent symptoms of the disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[1087,1123],"class_list":{"0":"post-2439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}