British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who was taken to an ICU last night has been given oxygen support, UK Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament for Health, Surrey, Michael Gove has confirmed. The MP also clarified that the Prime Minister is not on a ventilator.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had tested positive for coronavirus last month, was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on Monday, UK media reported.
Concerns had been growing about British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s welfare ever since he posted a message Friday in which he appeared red-eyed and flushed, saying that he was feeling better, though he was still feverish.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital Sunday for tests, his office said, because he is still suffering symptoms, 10 days after he was diagnosed with COVID-19.
As the number of confirmed cases in the country rose to 798, the British government on Friday postponed the local and mayoral elections in England for one year.
The British government is set to move to "delay" phase, the second in Britain's four-step move, in responding to the coronavirus by closing schools, cancelling major sporting events and making people work from home, British media reported.
British MP Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus, on Tuesday, raising concerns about whether senior government figures have been infected.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held an emergency COBRA meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on Monday to assess the fight against coronavirus and announced that preparations will begin for the "delay" phase of the government's four-phase strategy.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed on Saturday that he and his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, are engaged to be married and expecting a baby in the early summer.
Indian-origin Suella Braverman, appointed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the cabinet role of Attorney General for England and Wales on February 13, sworn in for the post at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
After a major reshuffle in UK Cabinet, 3 Indian origin MPs are now a part of Britain's core political think tank. Rishi Sunak, the son in law of Infosys co-founder Ramarao Narayan Murthy, on Thursday replaced Pakistan origin Chancellor Sajid Javid as the Chancellor of Exchequer (finance minister) of Uk, while Alok Sharma was appointed Business Secretary in the Cabinet.
Britain officially departs the EU at 11 p.m. local time Friday, midnight in Brussels (2300 GMT, 6 p.m. EST). The departure comes 3½ years after the country voted by a margin of 52%-48% to walk away from the club that it had joined in 1973.
Besides the Lords, Johnson also plans to hold temporary touring sessions of the House of Commons in different parts of the country.
The UK is a member of the EU in 600 international agreements, which expires at the end of the year when the transition period for Brexit expires and "the time to negotiate is very short", said EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
Britain passed a major milestone on the road to Brexit when the House of Commons on Thursday approved a bill authorizing the country's departure from the European Union at the end of the month.
A research conducted at IIT-Madras has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.
Newly elected British Parliamentarians on Friday definitively backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit Bill setting the stage for the UK's exit from the European Union (EU) by the January 31, 2020 deadline. The lawmakers voted 358 to 234 in favour of the so-called divorce agreement with the 28-member economic bloc, handing Johnson a decisive 124-vote majority.
Boris Johnson celebrated his thumping general election win with a glass of wine and a chicken curry cooked by his girlfriend Carrie Symonds.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain’s Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month.
British media reports say the Conservative Party has secured a majority by winning 326 seats out of 650 in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's gamble to push for an early vote as a way to end the parliamentary deadlock on Brexit looks to have paid off, with the number of Conservative seats in Parliament growing from 330 in 2017 to 368.
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