75-Year-Old Scottish Grandfather Beats COVID-19 Despite Having Only One Lung Due to Cancer

75-Year-Old Scottish Grandfather Beats COVID-19 Despite Having Only One Lung Due to Cancer
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A grandfather left with just one lung after two successive battles with cancer is celebrating a brand-new triumph; the 75-year-old has beaten the virus.

Owing to the lockdown restrictions, William Burns, from the town of Irvine in North Ayrshire, Scotland, was forced to endure his latest hospital stay separated from loved ones after being diagnosed with the virus. He was isolated from his loving wife of 54 years, Ruby, and the couple’s five sons and placed in intensive care at Crosshouse Hospital in Ayrshire.