Health

With the Prime Minister still in intensive care in hospital and receiving oxygen treatment, we get a view from a medic who knows what kind of situation he’s in.

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Boris Johnson remains in intensive care tonight – closely monitored and getting oxygen treatment.

Earlier Krishnan Guru-Murthy spoke to Saleyha Ahsan, an A&E doctor at Bangor Hospital in North Wales, currently working in London. 

 The First Secretary of State Dominic Raab is now deputising for Boris Johnson and this morning chaired the government’s daily emergency coronavirus meeting.

Earlier Krishnan Guru-Murthy spoke to the former Conservative leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who was chairman of Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign.

Intensive care units are designed to provide critical support for patients who are extremely ill.

Our health and social care correspondent Victoria Macdonald is at St Thomas’ Hospital, where the Prime Minister is being treated.