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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Lucy Williamson & Thomas Molloy

Dad-of-two has to learn to walk and talk again a year on from Covid hospital admission

A dad who contracted Covid-19 more than a year ago has only just learned to walk again.

Andrew Watts, 40, fell ill on Christmas Day 2020 and spent eight months in intensive care.

After experiencing a five-week induced coma and two life-threatening lung collapses, doctors called Andrew's wife Hayley to discuss turning off his ventilator because his condition had deteriorated so badly, but they insisted he should be "given more time".

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