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The Easter Resurrection

Boris Johnson in a blue hospital gown sits on a hospital bed in a room overlooking the River Thames and Palace of Westminster. He is trying to get up out of bed.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was one of a growing number of world leaders testing positive for COVID-19. Succumbing to a serious case of the disease, he spent three days in intensive care. Just weeks before testing positive, he had been outspoken about continuing to shake hands: ‘I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were coronavirus patients and I was shaking hands with everybody.’