Kate Garraway says husband Derek Draper is still 'terribly affected by Covid' in fresh update on ITV Good Morning Britain
manchestereveningnews.co.ukKate 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. READ MORE: ITV This Morning's Alison Hammond gives rare insight into home life with son and other housemate 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...
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