“He must rest up,” his father Stanley Johnson told BBC radio, thanking Britons for their outpouring of support and telling them to heed the lesson. NIBD set to treat COVID-19 patients through passive immunisationThe death toll is 7,978 – the fifth highest in the world. “You cannot walk away from this and go straight back to Downing Street and pick up the reins without a period of readjustment,” Stanley Johnson added. The prime minister’s Downing Street office said he was in the “early phase” of recovery and it was unclear how long he would be in the hospital. “We’ve started already to see plateauing,” said epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, a professor at Imperial College in London who has helped shape the official response.

Source: The Express Tribune April 10, 2020 09:45 UTC