East Kilbride: Covid-19 patient wakes from coma to discover he’s going to be a grandfather

A Covid-19 patient who spent two months in an induced coma on a ventilator woke up to the news that he is going to be a grandfather.

Brian Fernie is recovering in a ward at University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride after spending 67 days in intensive care battling coranavirus – 61 of them in a coma.

The experience so shook the 46-year-old from Cambuslang that he is now planning to marry his partner of 22 years.