Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox Kate Garraway has said her husbands prognosis may not be clear until next summer.
Derek Draper, 53, is the 'sickest person the team of doctors have treated that has lived,' Kate has said in a new ITV documentary.
The former Labour lobbyist has suffered kidney failure, liver and pancreatic damage, has holes in his lungs from pneumonia and has lost 8 stone following his battle with coronavirus which saw him placed into an induced coma last March.
He remains in a prolonged disorder of consciousness and will be seen communicating with his wife of 16 years in Finding Derek, Kate's ITV documentary which airs at 9pm tonight.
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