After 114 days in ICU, Catalan COVID-19 patient soaks up seaside sunshine

COVID-19 patient, Joan Soler Serda, 63, who is deaf-mute, reads the lips and gestures of his family members after watching the sea as part of a "sea therapy", after 114 days since he was admitted at Hospital del Mar, in Barcelona, Spain March 25, 2021. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

MADRID (Reuters) - Medical staff rolled Joan Soler Sendra, 63, across the street in his hospital bed to bask on the sunlit seashore, in his first outing after almost four months in intensive care in Barcelona's Hospital del Mar.

Sendra and his two brothers were infected with the coronavirus last November in Catalunya - but only Sendra had to go to hospital.