A Greek pensioner's long walk back from COVID-19

Yannis Ieremias, 70, is assisted to sit on a robotic-assisted hand therapy device at the Theseus Rehabilitation Centre in Athens, Greece, February 1, 2021. Ieremias, who spend more than 50 days in the intensive care unit of an Athens hospital with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), must undergo therapy to recover from mobility problems caused by his extend hospitalisation. Picture taken February 1, 2021. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

ATHENS (Reuters) - When Greek pensioner Yannis Ieremias went into intensive care with COVID-19 in November, he never expected it would be 50 days before he woke up.

Now the 70-year-old former schoolteacher, still under medical supervision and learning to walk again, dreams of the day he can see his family again and go home to his olives trees on the island of Crete.