He missed the meetings. Gove admitted it in the Mail piece (of all places).

"Mr Gove, who is part of the so-called 'quad' of ministers steering the government's response while the PM recovers from his own battle with the disease, this morning called the allegations 'off-beam'.

Speaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge, the minister for the cabinet office said: 'There are one or two aspects of the Sunday Times report that are slightly off-beam.'

He confirmed the PM did not attend the Cobra meetings, but added: 'He didn't. But then he wouldn't. Because most Cobra meetings don't have the Prime Minister attending them.'"

Depends who you want to believe, I s'pose...