LONDON (REUTERS) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked Britons for abiding by the lockdown as he returned to work on Monday (April 27) after recovering from a serious Covid-19 infection, saying Britain was turning the tide against the coronavirus spread. 

“Everyday, I know that this virus brings new sadness and mourning to households across the land and it is still true that this is the biggest single challenge this country has faced since the war,” Mr Johnson said outside his Downing Street office. 

Mr Johnson, who spent days in intensive care in hospital after he was infected with the virus, said the country was coming “to the end of the first phase of this conflict”. 

“We must also recognise the risk of a second spike, the risk of losing control of that virus and letting the reproduction rate go back over one because that would mean not only a new wave of death and disease but also an economic disaster,” he said.

He also said the government would outline plans for an easing of the coronavirus lockdown in the coming days but warned that there would be difficult judgments required.

“We simply cannot spell out now how fast or slow or even when those changes will be made, though clearly the government will be saying much more about this in the coming days,” Mr Johnson said.

“I want to serve notice now that these decisions will be taken with the maximum possible transparency and I want to share all our working and our thinking, my thinking, with you the British people. Of course we will be relying as ever on the science to inform us, as we have from the beginning.”

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