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Lucy Williamson & Barry Ellams

'London's sickest Covid patient' learning to walk again 12 months on

A man who fell ill with Covid-19 in December 2020 is only now learning to walk again after a year-long battle with the illness.

Andrew Watts, from Bexley, has only recently come off oxygen supply after becoming very poorly for more than 12 months.

The 40-year-old made headlines last November after he had one of the longest patient stays doctors had ever seen, having spent eight months in intensive care and then two months on a ward. He was in hospital for 300 days in total.

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