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Wayne Lineker Leaves ICU After Severe Pneumonia, Faces Months of Rehab

An Instagram update reports he has left intensive care for a respiratory ward.

Overview

  • Lineker, 63, says he remains unable to walk and expects around two months of physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
  • He reports spending about 10 days in intensive care before being transferred to a respiratory ward and says he is out of the critical phase.
  • He believes he contracted a severe infection on a flight from Mauritius to Dubai roughly two weeks before his hospitalisation.
  • He initially thought he had COVID-19, then feared a heart attack, before doctors diagnosed pneumonia.
  • All details were shared via his Instagram Stories, with no independent medical statement cited in the coverage.