UK Prime Minister Taken to Hospital ICU Over COVID-19

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson claps outside 11 Downing Street to salute local heroes during the nationwide Clap for Carers NHS initiative to applaud workers fighting the CCP virus pandemic, in London, on April 2, 2020. Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street via AP

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to an intensive care unit (ICU) after he was hospitalized over the weekend for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, which causes the disease COVID-19.

“Since Sunday evening, the Prime Minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus,” a spokesman for his office said in a statement on Monday.