Coronavirus: UK live updates, Boris Johnson discharged, over 10,000 deaths - Business Insider

April 12: Boris Johnson has been discharged from St. Thomas Hospital in London to continue his recovery from the coronavirus at his Chequers country estate.Johnson won't immediately return to work on the advice of his doctors.Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will continue to deputise for him.The UK reported 710 new coronavirus deaths on Saturday, taking the death toll to over 10,000.The UK government will decide next week whether or not to extend its coronavirus lockdown by at least another three weeks.Johnson's government is under growing pressure to provide more safety equipment to NHS staff. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

April 12: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from London's St Thomas Hospital as he continues his recovery from the coronavirus.“The PM has been discharged from hospital to continue his recovery, at Chequers,” a Downing Street spokesperson said on Sunday.“On the advice of his medical team, the PM will not be immediately returning to work.”He wishes to thank everybody at St Thomas' for the brilliant care he has received.Johnson spent a week in the hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened at the end of last week.He spent three nights in intensive care as his condition deteriorated, but was moved back to his ward on Thursday, April 9 after responding positively to treatment.

Meanwhile, the UK's coronavirus death toll surpassed 1,000 on Sunday following the announcement of a further 710 deaths linked to the virus. 10,647 people in the UK have died after testing positive for the COVID-19 virus.Sir Jeremy Farrar, who is advising the government on its response to the crisis, on Sunday warned that the UK could Europe's worst affected country by the pandemic.“I do hope that we are coming close to the number of new infections reducing and, in a week or two, the number of people needing hospital reducing, and the number of deaths starting to come down,” he told the BBC.“But numbers in the UK have continued to go up. And yes, the UK is likely to be certainly one of the worst, if not the worst affected, country in Europe.”Read on for the latest updates on how the virus is spreading across Britain.

For the latest global case total, death toll, and travel information, see Business Insider's live updates here.Kieran Corcoran, Alison Millington, Rachel Hosie, Lindsay Dodgson, and Rob Price contributed reporting to this post.