Health correspondent Victoria McDonald is here.

Victoria, what more can you tell us?

Yes.

We have just been told by Downing Street that the Prime Minister has now been moved to intensive care that his condition has worsened.

Now they're gonna great odds to say that this is a precaution.

Should he require ventilation to aid his recovery.

So that is slightly good news that is not currently being ventilated.

But it is.

We had been told that he'd been put into hospital on Sunday as a precaution because he had this persistent high fever.

Although some people were saying he was still coughing as well.

And it must be said, as Gary pointed out earlier in the program, he wasn't looking very well.

A cz time had gone on.

Now they've said the prime minister has also asked the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, who was the first Secretary of state to deputize for him.

They go on to say he's at ST Thomas's Hospital, just across the river from Downing Street.

The prime minister is receiving excellent care and he thanks a ll the n H s staff, But his condition has worsened.

Let's talk to our political adjusted God given go.

You heard the news just now as well.

What's your reaction?

What would the reaction be?

The high circles of government, the high circles of government?

There will be a feeling that the biggest decisions of this crisis lie in the immediate future.

That's not just how the government rides the storm of the height of the crisis in terms of the number of deaths, but how you work out the exit strategy.

That is a monumental piece of work.

And it's very hard to achieve that in government unless you have incisions taken right at the top, which are an incredible call to make on the exit strategy.

And doing that without the guy who's meant to be in charge of the top could be maker.

Extraordinarily difficult decision, even more testing.

How much shock was there in dinosaurs, as far as we can gather that he had to be moved into intensive care because, of course, we were told by Dominic grab just this after afternoon that he was in good spirits and genuinely kind of getting on with it.

The suggestion is that his condition worsened in the afternoon.

I think you could tell them that Dominic Raab himself hadn't spoken to the prime minister since Saturday.

So he wasn't directly in the picture.

Like some people, it might be that there was a little bit more readiness for this kind of thing.

Amongst that we were very close to the crime.

Okay, Victoria, just one more to you.

I mean, Thio do well, and they're not to do so well and then to get worse.

That's quite usual.

This disease, isn't it?

We are seeing that in some conditions.

And in fact, I interviewed somebody last week who said he felt he was recovering and then had deteriorated to the point that had had to go into hospital.

So this is not unusual.

And I think we do need to take heart right at the moment from the fact that although he isn't intensive care, he isn't on ventilation because that really does make it much more serious.

Okay, Victoria McDonald gather given.

Thank you very much indeed.

Uh, a guy I think we'll get back to you for a little bit long.

You could something else to add, apparently.

Well, just to say that following on from what Victoria was saying?

Yeah, he It doesn't appear that he is using ventilators at the moment and he is conscious, we are told.

So we can't prejudge these things.

It might be Is there saying precautionary?

Or it might be that their shielding us from a little bit of information.

They Ah, just two alarm to share at the moment.

But that is not the line from Downing Street.

It is that we are still not at the extreme case of using a ventilator yet as Victoria's.

So just to be clear, he's not on a ventilator, but he is in I C u Is he getting oxygen?

Do we know that?

I'm afraid we don't have that detail of the moment.

He was anybody there at seven o'clock?

We think so.

This is just a Victoria Just finally and briefly give us some sort of understanding 20 seconds of what happens now.

What happens now is that they will monitor his position.

His condition very carefully.

They will.

He he will be near a ll the machines you need the ventilators, the the kidney support machine and so on.

But it is precautionary.

Precautionary So we've the next 25.

They're going to be absolutely crucial on Well, I would say the next few hours in a few hours, 24 hours because this is a disease that could move very fast.

Okay, retort McDonald, Gary Given, Thank you very much indeed to both of you under the last two minutes.

The breaking news from Downing Street said that Foreign Secretary Dominic Grab would deputize where necessary while the prime minister is now in intensive care with Cove, it 19 number 10 spokesman said.

Since Sunday evening, the prime minister has been under the care of doctors at ST Thomas's Hospital in London after being admitted with persistent symptoms off Corona virus.

Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the prime minister has worsened, and on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the intensive care unit at ST Thomas's Hospital.