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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, it's 1037 on Monday night. No music tonight or jokes or anything because the news is |
0:08.8 | incredibly serious tonight. We heard a couple of hours ago that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson |
0:13.6 | who was already in hospital in London had been moved into intensive care because his condition |
0:20.4 | had deteriorated over the afternoon. He'd been suffering from coronavirus for about 10 days. |
0:27.2 | Laura Coonsberg is here, our political editor. Hello, Laura. Hello, Adam. What's the latest |
0:31.5 | that we know about what's going on with the Prime Minister? Well, we know that having been taken to |
0:36.0 | hospital last night, he was there supposedly to be sort of monitored and having some routine tests |
0:42.6 | through the day. We were even told this morning that, number 10, he was still in touch, he was |
0:45.9 | receiving his red boxes. But at eight o'clock tonight, that story changed very significantly. |
0:52.5 | We were told that he's been, after medics were concerned that his condition was worsening, |
0:57.0 | he's been taken to intensive care. Now, as we talk tonight, we understand he has not yet received |
1:02.5 | treatment on a ventilator. He has been moved to intensive care in case he needs ventilation |
1:08.7 | through the night. Now, if you've been listening to this programme for the last few weeks, |
1:12.0 | you'll understand why ventilation is something absolutely key as part of the treatment to people |
1:16.3 | who are suffering very severely from coronavirus symptoms. We understand that in St Thomas's hospital, |
1:21.2 | the Prime Minister's not yet needed that kind of treatment. But the idea of moving him into |
1:26.0 | intensive care is in case through the night, he suddenly does require it. So clearly, this is a |
1:30.8 | very grave situation. The Foreign Secretary Dominic Rob has now officially been asked to deputise |
1:36.4 | for the Prime Minister as and when. And you went and spoke to Dominic Rob a little while ago, and |
1:41.2 | here's what he told you. Well, since Sunday, the Prime Minister has been under the medical care |
1:46.0 | of the team at St Thomas's hospital after he was admitted with persistent coronavirus symptoms, |
1:51.9 | that during the course of this afternoon, the Prime Minister's condition worsened, |
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