LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs time to recover from the CCP virus and is unlikely to be back at work soon, his father said Friday, as millions of Britons began an Easter holiday weekend in lockdown.
Britain’s official death toll of people with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, leapt by 980 Friday to 8,958—a bigger daily increase than was seen in Italy and Spain, the two European countries with the greatest number of fatalities. Italy recorded a high of 969 deaths on March 27 and Spain 950 deaths on April 2.
