. >> behind the doors of this london hospital, british foreign minister boris j johnson contins his battlegainst covid-19. publilicinister told the that though he remains in intensive care his condition is improving. hei can also tell you that has been sitting up in bed andnd engaging positivively with a clinical team. >> the 55-year-old was taken to hospital with coronavirus symptoms sunday and moved to the icu ward a day later. the country is entering a critical phasese of the epidide. lives ine lost their the latest daily death toll. health expxperts are showing sis of optimismm, pointing to the effectctiveness of the lockdown. >> we are starting to see a sigig of plateauing fectctions and hospitalitions.s. if we had not taken those measures, if people had not complied with them, we would not be seeing that. >> authorities warned the outbreak is far from over and that social distancing remains crucial. with boris johnson out of action, foreign minister dominic raab has been deputized in his stead and is overseeing plans of how and when to lift the national lockdown. macron in france, ma

tonight, get well wishes from around the world for britain's prime minister, boris j johnson.n his second daday in intensive care. johnnn remains conscious and is not on a ventilator. the foreign minister is stepping in for the prime minister but only when necessary. that leaves unanswered one question, who is in charge in the u.k.? also coming up, what to do in europe from preventing a pandemic from becoming a an economic depression. and, denmark starts a slow lifting of its coronavirus restrictions. it plans to reopen daycare centers and schools beginning april 15. it is the first step to relaxing a three week lockdown, but is the government, is the danish government putting danes at too great a risk? ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. as world leaders sent messages of support, boris johnson remains in stable condition in intensive care at a london hospital. johnson spent 12 days in isolation after testing positive for the coronavirus. he was admitted sunday evening to the hospital because his symptoms were not going a

j heard immunity. although our government denies that. i watched boris johnson's government denies that.that. i watched boris johnson's discussion of what was going to happen and he said, you know, every family should expect to lose loved ones before their time stuff i mean, that was clearly what he said, try to protect the vulnerable. but that is a fact, families are losing loved ones before their time, it does not mean that heard immunity was the policy. it certainly sounded like it, protect as many people as you can but allow the virus to infect the young so can go back to work and thatis young so can go back to work and that is very clearly a dangerous policy that several countries have tried them even if they have not quite called it that. it is really clear that the sooner you act and the more you break the chains of transmission, the faster you can get it under control. the reason i asked about your prime minister following the site and obviously, you are one of those advisers, is, are the scientists all coming up with the same science around the world, and it is the politicians w