By Reuters Staff
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LONDON (Reuters) - “We’ll bounce back better together,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told overweight Britons on Thursday, championing his own weight loss and health eating diet to try to persuade others to get in shape to reduce coronavirus risks.
After being hospitalised with COVID last year, Johnson has often spoken about how he believes his weight was behind how severely ill he became and how since then he has started a new exercise regime and no late-night cheese diet.
Evidence emerging around the world suggests that people who are overweight or obese are at increased risk of getting more severely ill with COVID-19.