Piers Morgan gave an update on Kate Garraway's husband Derek on Good Morning Britain today.
Piers and his co-host Susanna Reid interviewed vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi when Piers revealed that Derek may "never come out of his coma".
Derek, 53, was admitted to hospital with the virus last March and despite now testing negative for covid-19 the disease has attacked his body, leaving him with multiple health issues - reports the Manchester Evening News.
Kate, also 53, said last week that her husband is "still ravaged by effects of coronavirus" after suffering major complications.
Piers' update came after Nadhim Zahawi revealed his own family tragedy as a result of the virus.
He explained his uncle had died after contracting Covid-19 before he'd had the chance to have the vaccine.
After the interview, Piers said: "From him you can see he was not sure whether to tell us that.
"I'm sure [politicians] don't want to be seen to be using it in some way but actually personalising it is important.
"It's powerful because now we have the Vaccine Minister's own family has been hit by covid.
"His own uncle just died of covid before he had a chance to be protected and that's the race we're in with this virus to get vaccinated before more and more people sadly lose their lives to this disease. It's a horrible killer disease."
Susanna said: "And we're so close, aren't we. To getting that elderly vulnerable group all jabbed so let's get it done."
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Piers then continued: "Very sorry to him Nadhim and his family, it's horrible. I know people who have lost parents, who’ve lost uncles, family members and it’s devastating.
"When I see these covid not the deniers but also the covid down-players. The ones who constantly want to talk it all down. To say it's just another flu and we're overreacting. Ask around now, ask enough people and you’ll find somebody."
He added on Kate's situation: "We know from our colleague Kate Garraway whose husband Derek is still in a coma from covid.
"He may never come out of that coma she’s been told this and it's heartbreaking."
Kate said during an interview on GMB last week that Derek's recovery is "incredibly uncertain."
She said: "They said the chances of Derek's survival was next to nothing and that he'd probably die, but I thought some people are surviving so why not Derek."
