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After spending weeks recovering from COVID-19, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was back on the job Monday, NPR reports. The Pm praised his country for its "grit and guts" in the face of the pandemic, but warned that any let-up in efforts to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus risked "a new wave of death and disease."

Johnson, who tested positive for the coronavirus in March and was hospitalized early this month, spent three nights in intensive care and was discharged two weeks ago. He was the first major world leader to contract the disease, the source reminds.

Johnson compared the disease to "an unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is." "[This] is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor," he said.

"We must also recognize the risk of a second spike, the risk of losing control of that virus," Johnson said, which would "mean not only a new wave of death and disease but also an economic disaster."

He called on businesses anxious to reopen to "contain your impatience."

"I believe we are coming now to the end of the first phase of this conflict and in spite of all the suffering we have so nearly succeeded," he said, as quoted by the source.