Michael Rosen home from intensive care after coronavirus

The 74-year-old children’s author tweeted ‘I’ve survived!’ after leaving hospital, having been admitted at the end of March

Michael Rosen has finally made it back home after going into intensive care with Covid-19 at the end of March.

The award-winning and popular poet and children’s author began charting his illness on Twitter in March, writing of “bed-breaking shakes” and “freezing cold sweats”, of “deep muscle exhaustion” and the “image of war hero biting on a hankie, while best mate plunges live charcoal into the wound to cauterise it”. He went into intensive care at the end of the month, with his family warning that he was “very poorly” at the time.

Home! @MichaelRosenYespic.twitter.com/8rNyjSG275