Boris Johnson’s ‘temperature has fallen’ after going into intensive care, according to reports (Picture: Getty/PA)

Boris Johnson’s persistent temperature – said to be the reason he was advised to go into hospital this weekend – ‘has fallen’, according to reports from St Thomas’ Hospital.

The Prime Minister spent his second night in intensive care on Tuesday but his condition is described as ‘stable’ and he is in ‘good spirits’ despite being kept in for ‘close monitoring’, according to Downing Street.

Mr Johnson was admitted to hospital on Sunday evening on the advice of his doctor as he still had a temperature 10 days after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

On Monday, the PM was moved into the intensive care unit (ICU) at St Thomas’ where he remains. After two nights under the supervision of NHS doctors in the ICU, his persistently high temperature has fallen, The Times reports.


A message for Boris displayed on a van outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London where the PM is receiving treatment (Picture: PA)

Questions remain over the UK’s coronavirus strategy in Mr Johnson’s absence. Concerns were yesterday raised over when the lockdown measures will be reviewed and England’s chief medical officer admitted the UK has ‘a lot to learn’ from Germany’s expansive testing scheme.



But there was cautious optimism from chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance after he said the fight against Covid-19 ‘could be moving in the right direction’ at the Downing Street press conference on Tuesday.

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Meanwhile the first of the NHS Nightingale hospitals, at London’s ExCel centre, received its first patients last night.

The Nightingale was built to boost treatment capacity in London but officials stressed that limits had not been reached at other sites across the capital.

An NHS Nightingale London spokeswoman said last night: ‘There is also treatment capacity available in other hospitals across London to complement the care being provided at the London Nightingale.’

NHS Nightgale staff welcomed their first patients at the ExCel Centre in London on Tuesday night (Picture: @Prof_Schilling)

The admissions come just two weeks after the temporary hospital with a planned capacity of 4,000 was formally announced, but later than had initially been expected.

Later last night, Donald Trump claimed that the UK called the US with an urgent plea for 200 ventilators, as ministers seek to scramble to boost capacity for the sickest of patients.

‘We’re going to work it out, we’ve got to work it out,’ he said at a press conference in Washington. ‘They’ve been great partners. They wanted 200, they need them desperately.’

Earlier at the daily Downing Street press conference, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he is ‘confident’ the PM will pull through after a worsening of his coronavirus symptoms.

Mr Raab, who is deputising in Mr Johnson’s absence, suggested the review of the lockdown announced by the PM when he set out the restrictions would not go ahead on Monday as scheduled.

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He stressed that they could not consider easing the lockdown restrictions until it was clear the peak of the epidemic had passed and it could be ‘responsibly done’.

Downing Street later confirmed the review would take place after the three-week mark originally committed to.

But the emergency legislation laid before Parliament three days after the PM’s announcement states that a review must take place every 21 days, with the first deadline being April 16.

Sir Patrick said there were signs that the rates of new infections and new hospital admissions for Covid-19 were ‘flattening off’ but added it would be another ‘week or so’ before they could be sure, indicating lockdown measures would not be eased before then.

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