Kate Garraway has given a fresh update on her husband Derek Draper while on Good Morning Britain.
The presenter was back at the helm of the ITV news programme on Thursday alongside Ben Shephard.
The hosts were discussing the latest news headlines with Dr Hilary Jones, including the news that healthy children aged five to 11 across the UK are to be offered a Covid-19 vaccine as well as reports that free Covid tests are set to be scrapped.
This then led to Kate mentioning her upcoming documentary, Caring For Derek.
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It follows the 54-year-old's previous film, Finding Derek, and will show the former Labour lobbyist after he returned to their family home over a year after being admitted to hospital with Covid symptoms.
"Next week there's another documentary about Derek coming out that I've done, Caring For Derek.
"Obviously he is still terribly affected by Covid, and undoubtedly it has had an effect on certainly brain connections to his body."
Ben, who appears in the upcoming doc as he visits Kate and their north London home, asked his co-host: "So not just physical wellbeing, but mental wellbeing as well?"
Kate replied: "I don't know about mental wellbeing if I'm absolutely honest, because he is still so affected in terms of communication and mobility that I wouldn't feel qualified to say whether it had had an impact in terms of depression and anxiety.
"I mean it must be I would have thought, because if you are still unable to communicate and very challenged mobility wise, and lung, and all the other things, then that is going to affect...
"It's interesting isn't it that now at last... everything was focused on the lungs, and then people were understanding there is fatigue, which is actually a neurological problem anyway, and now more and more we are realising the wider impact."
In an advert currently being aired on ITV for Caring for Derek, Kate is heard saying as clips of the couple at home air: “I'm very protective of people seeing him vulnerable but this is the reality of life for people that are caring. The person he is now, in many ways, is a stranger."
Over the weekend, Kate has said she and her husband still share a "deep connection" and that they have found a "new way" to love each other."
While admitting their relationship has changed, the Smooth Radio presenter told You magazine: "I'm not sure that we’ve ever fallen out of love, but I think a new path is emerging, a new way to be in love.
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