Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a third night in intensive care being treated for coronavirus and is in stable condition and 'improving,' his office said.
Johnson had a"good night" in the hospital, a Downing Street statement said.Johnson is being cared for in St Thomas' Hospital in central London. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 26 and still had a cough and fever 10 days later.Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is standing for Johnson while he is hospitalized.
Raab will chair a meeting Thursday that will assess Britain's national lockdown measures and aim to determine when some of the restrictions can be eased. Britain's death toll reached 7,097 as of Wednesday, according to Public Health England, an increase of 938 from 24 hours earlier, and the biggest daily increase to date.
Elsewhere in Europe, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he thinks his country has now reached the peak of its coronavirus infections. But he said any return to normal life would only happen gradually and he asked Spain's Parliament to approve his request to extend the country's state of emergency until April 26.
"The climb has been difficult, as the descent will also be," he said, referring to Spain's 150,000 infections and 15,000 deaths."We are facing the biggest threat to the planet's public health since the flu of 1918. The last thing we should allow is a step backwards because that would be more than a setback, it would be a rebound" for the virus.New infections and deaths in Italy in recents days have also declined.
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