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Lucy Williamson & Laura Sharman & Lucy Williamson

Dad named 'one of sickest Covid patients' comes off oxygen a year after getting virus

A dad described "one of the sickest ever" Covid patients has just started breathing without oxygen support more than a year after catching the virus.

Andrew Watts, 40, had one of the longest hospital stays doctors had ever seen after spending eight months in intensive care followed by another two months on a ward.

The dad-of-two spent 300 days at Queen Elizabeth Hospital where he was admitted with Covid-19 pneumonia on Christmas Day in 2020.

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