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UK PM Johnson returns to Downing St, says ‘we’re beginning to turn tide’

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, making his first public appearance in nearly a month after contracting COVID-19 and being treated in intensive care, says that, without wishing to 'minimise the continuing problems we face', the United Kingdom is 'beginning to turn the tide' in the fight against coronavirus.

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