Britain’s government sought Wednesday to keep a grip on the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic as Prime Minister Boris Johnson started a third day in the intensive care unit of a London hospital being treated for COVID-19.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab chaired a meeting of the government’s COVID-19 crisis committee while the number of virus-related deaths reported in the U.K.
approached the levels seen in the worst-hit European nations, Italy and Spain. The country’s confirmed death toll reached 6,159 as of Tuesday, an increase of 786 from 24 hours earlier.
That was the biggest daily leap to date, although the deaths reported Tuesday occurred over several days. The virus has hit people from all walks of life — including