It's a boy: British PM Boris Johnson becomes father again

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancee, Carrie Symonds, has given birth to a baby boy, PA Media reported.

Both mother and child are doing well.

Johnson, 55, became the most high-profile world leader to contract COVID-19 one month ago. He spent a week in hospital, including three nights in intensive care, admitting in a video message after he was discharged that things "could have gone either way".

After a fortnight recovering at his countryside retreat of Chequers, he returned to Downing Street on Sunday night. On Monday morning he chaired the daily government coronavirus meeting, "and will now be resuming full duties", his spokesman said.