Johnson says doctors prepared for his death in coronavirus battle

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed for first time on Sunday that re were "contingency plans" in place in case things went “bly wrong” and he died during his treatment for COVID-19 in a hospital here last month.

55-year-old leer, who returned to work at 10 Downing Street after his recovery last week, told ‘ Sun On Sunday’ that he was given "litres and litres of oxygen" after going into intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital on April 7.

"It was a tough old moment, I won't deny it. y h a strategy to deal with a 'death of Stalin'- scenario,” he told newspaper. "I was t in particularly brilliant shape and I was aware re were contingency plans in place.

doctors h all sorts of arrangements for what to do if things went bly wrong. y gave me a face mask so I got litres and litres of oxygen and for a long time I h that and little se jobbie," he said as country reported over 28,000 deaths due to coronavirus outbreak as on Saturday.

interview comes a day after his fiancée Carrie Symonds shared a picture on Instagram with couple’s newborn son, who y have named Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson – with name Nicholas chosen in a d to two doctors who saved British premier's life.

Johnson mitted that he was "in denial" about how serious his condition was after testing positive for coronavirus and that he really did t want to go to hospital.

“I said I really didn't want to go into hospital. It didn't seem to me to be a good move but y were pretty amant. Looking back, y were right to force me to go," he said.

“It was hard to believe that in just a few days my health h deteriorated to this extent. I remember feeling frustrated. I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t getting better," he said during an emotional interview from Downing Street.

“But b moment came when it was 50-50 wher y were going to have to put a tube down my windpipe. That was when it got a bit… y were starting to think about how to handle it presentationally."

In reference to his time in intensive care, he ded: "Because bloody indicators kept going in wrong direction and I thought, 're's medicine for this thing and re's cure'. That was st when I was thinking, 'How am I going to get out of this?'"

Johnson mits he was coming to terms - probably for first time - with his own mortality. He h been in hospital several times before, usually with rugby injuries, but thing quite like this.

He said: “I’ve broken my se, I’ve broken my finger, I’ve broken my wrist, I’ve broken my rib. I’ve broken just about everything. I’ve broken all sorts of things, several times in some cases. But I’ve never h anything as serious as this.”

Johnson h been diagsed with COVID-19 on March 26 and was mitted to hospital 10 days later. following day, he was moved to intensive care. He said his recovery was due to "wonderful, wonderful nursing" and felt "lucky" to have come out of dely disease, given so many ors were still suffering.

"And so if you ask me, 'Am I driven by a desire to stop or people suffering?' Yes, I absolutely am. But I am also driven by an overwhelming desire to get our country as a whole back on its feet, healthy again, going forward in a way that we can and I'm very confident we'll get re," he said.

prime minister is expected to unveil UK's approach to tackling "phase two" of virus w peak of infections has passed and lay out a “comprehensive” plan for unlocking ecomy. So far, over 28,000 COVID-19 related deaths have been registered in hospitals and wider community across UK, which remains under strict social distancing lockdown measures to curb spre of dely virus.

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