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Prime minister Boris Johnson speaks during a Downing Street COVID briefing on 5 April 2020. (Screenshots from the BBC)
Prime minister Boris Johnson has been condemned for confusing HIV with “AIDS or whatever” during a live broadcast of the UK government’s COVID briefing.
The prime minister was asked about whether he imagined the UK would still be in a pandemic, considering his personal experience being hospitalised with COVID last year. Johnson was hospitalised in April 2020 after reportedly suffering 10 days of symptoms, and he remained in hospital until 12 April.
In a press briefing on Monday (5 April), he said he was “filled with amazement” that science has “produced so many vaccines”. He added that he could have never believed so many COVID vaccines would be available in “such a short order”.