'I owe them my life': Boris Johnson thanks NHS staff after spending week in hospital with coronavirus

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• Prime Minister Boris Johnson credited NHS staff with saving his life in a statement on Saturday night, the BBC reported.
• "I can't thank them enough," the coronavirus-stricken politician said about the doctors and nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in London. "I owe them my life."
• Johnson's comments mark his first public statement since his admission to intensive care on Monday.
• He was moved to another ward on Thursday after his condition improved.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson credited NHS staff with saving his life in a statement on Saturday night, the BBC reported.

"I can't thank them enough," the British leader said about the doctors and nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in London, who have taken care of him since his admission with COVID-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus — a week ago.

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