Boris Johnson Says Doctors Prepared to Announce His Death

  • Britain’s prime minister was in intensive care with virus
  • Johnson was given liters of oxygen as he fought to survive

Boris Johnson observes a minute's silence in tribute to the NHS staff and key workers who have died during the coronavirus outbreak.

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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his condition deteriorated so rapidly from the coronavirus that his doctors were preparing how to explain his death, according to an interview with the Sun on Sunday.