Much as the news is cheering that Coronavirus cases, having reached its peak and is now on the decline in Europe, the other side of it that Mr. Boris Johnson has been transferred to his hospital’s specialist unit when his case got worse Monday night is saddening.
Although the virus is dreaded and wild by nature, available records show that contacting it is still not a death sentence. However, loss of hundreds, in some other cases in Europe thousands of lives of human beings not flies or crickets, under 24 hours, can be profoundly grieving.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was diagnosed with coronavirus on March 26 and is now in intensive care in a London hospital after his condition worsened Monday evening.
He had said he was still in charge of the government as he would be working from home. But he had to go to the hospital because he had high fever that had defied treatment.
A quintessential gentleman administrator, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who was born on 19 June 1964, is a British politician, writer, and former journalist, who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019.
He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.
Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, he identifies as a one-nation conservative.
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab will be leading the UK government response to the coronavirus while Johnson is in hospital.
In Europe, there are indications that the pace of infections in hard-hit Spain and Italy is slowing, although the death toll continues to rise.
In the United States, the outbreak is still growing with the death toll at least 10,000 and more than 366,000 confirmed cases
