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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was well after coming into contact with someone with Covid-19 and will drive the government forward via Zoom while in self-isolation in Downing Street.
Johnson said on Sunday he had been told by the NHS Test & Trace scheme to self-isolate for two weeks. Smiling and wearing a jumper with an open shirt, Johnson said in a video posted on Twitter that he was as “fit as a butcher’s dog”.
“I’m bursting with antibodies,” Johnson said. “Plenty more to say via Zoom of course and other means of electronic communication.”
Ministers said Johnson was fine.
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“He’s well, he’s absolutely full of beans,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News. “He’ll be, I’ve got no doubt, driving things forward this week by Zoom.”
When Johnson caught Covid-19 in March, he tried to work through the illness “in denial” – but ended up wearing an oxygen mask in an intensive care unit and was ultimately out of action for almost a month.
He later said he had fought for his life as the state prepared for the unthinkable: the possible death in office of a prime minister.
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Meanwhile, a think tank said on Sunday the lifting of the first Covid-19 lockdown earlier this year did little to improve the incomes of people in Britain who lost out from the restrictions, and lower-earning households have borne the brunt of the hit.
With unemployment on the rise in Britain, the proportion of adults reporting a drop in incomes improved only slightly to 23 per cent between July and September from 27 per cent in the April-June period, the Resolution Foundation said in a report.
Three in 10 of the adults who took a sustained income hit were unable to afford some basic household costs such as heating and fresh fruit and vegetables, the report said.
“The government should strengthen the social safety net that more families are coming to rely upon,” said Karl Handscomb, an economist at the Resolution Foundation.
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Adults in highest 20 per cent income band, or an average of £64,000 (US$84,400) a year, were more likely to have seen their family budgets improve than deteriorate from before the pandemic as many managed to save more.
By contrast, low-income households on £13,000 a year were more than twice as likely to have seen their budgets deteriorate.
The report was based on a survey of 6,061 adults between September 17 and 22.
Johnson has ordered a new, month-long lockdown for England which is due to end on December 2. Other parts of Britain are also under coronavirus restrictions.
Britain has been the worst-hit country in Europe by the pandemic, recording over 50,000 deaths from some 1.2 million positive cases.


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(FILES) In this handout file photo taken and released on April 28, 2020 by 10 Downing Street, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen displaying his Get Well Soon cards sent in by children while he was ill with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, at his office in 10 Downing Street, central London. - Doctors treating Boris Johnson for coronavirus prepared to announce his death after he was taken to intensive care, the British prime minister said on Sunday, May 3, in his first detailed comments about his illness. (Photo by Andrew PARSONS / 10 Downing Street / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / 10 DOWNING STREET / ANDREW PARSONS" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

epa08395813 A visitor from the Bangladesh High Commission delivers flowers to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds following the birth of their son at 10 Downing Street, Central London, Britain, 01 May, 2020. The United Kingdom's 66 million inhabitants are living through their sixth consecutive week of nationwide lockdown prompted by the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. EPA- EPA-EFE/WILL OLIVER

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‘I’m bursting with antibodies’, said Johnson, who was hospitalised with coronavirus in April
Britain has been the worst-hit country in Europe by the pandemic, recording over 50,000 deaths from some 1.2 million positive cases



‘I’m bursting with antibodies’, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was hospitalised with coronavirus in April.
