UK had contingency plan ready for Johnson’s death: report

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The British government had a contingency plan for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s death as he battled Covid-19 in intensive care last month, he said in an interview with The Sun newspaper.

Johnson, 55, returned to work last Monday, a month after testing positive for Covid-19. He spent 10 days in isolation in Downing Street before he was taken to London’s St Thomas Hospi­tal, where he spent three nights in intensive care.

“They had a strategy to deal with a death of Stalin-type scenario,” Johnson was quoted as saying in the newspaper. “It was a tough old moment, I won’t deny it.”

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