Johnson asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise for him shortly before he was moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital on Monday evening.
But Britain does not have a formal constitutional role of deputy prime minister, and it is not clear that Raab himself has the power to take big decisions if required. Officials initially said he had only mild symptoms, and the prime minister himself posted regular videos online, so his admission to hospital on Sunday came as a shock.
James Gill, honorary clinical lecturer at Warwick Medical School, added however that admission to intensive care “is not all together uncommon with this disease.”The British government was criticised for initially refusing to follow other European countries in requiring people to stay home as the virus spread.Two weeks ago he ordered a nationwide lockdown, but the British parliament continued to sit for several days after, and Westminster became a hotspot of coronavirus.
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