BORIS Johnson has been moved out of intensive care, it has been confirmed.
The Prime Minister is back in a general ward and will "receive close monitoring", a Downing Street spokesman said.
The Tory leader had spent three nights in intensive care after testing positive for coronavirus.
The spokesman said: “The Prime Minister has been moved this evening from intensive care back into the war, where he will receive close monitoring during the early phase of his recovery.
“He is in extremely good spirits.”
Johnson was originally admitted to hospital on Sunday on the advice of his doctor, amid concerns he was still suffering symptoms 10 days after testing positive for Covid-19.
Initially it was described as a "precautionary" measure and on Monday he was said to be issuing instructions and working on his ministerial red boxes from his hospital bed.
But by the evening his condition had deteriorated and he was moved to the intensive care unit in case he required a ventilator.
The announcement was greeted with shock at Westminster amid fears that No 10 had sought to play down the seriousness of his condition.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said that while he had received oxygen treatment, he had not needed to be put on a ventilator or CPAP machine.
By yesterday he was said to have been well enough to sit up in bed and to communicate with his medical team.
Earlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been deputising for him, told the daily No 10 press conference that he had been making "positive steps forward".
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