The foreign secretary said he was confident the the PM would “pull through” because he was a “fighter”.
Speaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for the PM, said Mr Johnson was not just a boss but “also our friend”.
“So all of our thoughts and prayers are with the prime minister at this time, with Carrie and with his whole family,” he said
“And I’m confident he’ll pull through because If there’s one thing I know about this prime minister: he’s a fighter. And he’ll be back at the helm, leading us through this crisis in short order.”
It comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK rose to 6,159 – a record increase of 786 in a day, the Department of Health and Social Care said, compared with 439 on Monday.
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