Boris Johnson making ‘good progress’ in virus recovery as UK death toll nears 10,000

Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson is greeted by staff as he arrives back at 10 Downing Street in central London on December 13, 2019, following an audience with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, where she invited him to become Prime Minister and form a new government. Picture: Stefan Rousseau / POOL / AFP

The health ministry announced another 917 coronavirus hospital patients had died in the latest 24-hour period, down from the toll on Friday but still the country’s second highest yet.It brings the total number of COVID-19 fatalities in British hospitals to 9,875, while the number of confirmed cases in the country climbed by 5,234 to 78,991.

He credited a nationwide lockdown introduced on March 23 for halting the virus’ spread, but added the mortality rate would be “the very final thing” to decrease. Her resolute comments came a week after a rare televised address to the nation in which she told people to unite to beat COVID-19.Johnson is the most high-profile leader to suffer from the coronavirus, and his hospitalisation is unprecedented for a British prime minister during a national emergency in modern times.

The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported Johnson’s friends had revealed he came close to death while in intensive care and said he owed his life to the hospital’s medical team.

How many people would have died in the annual flu season that are dying now anyway?

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