AFTER 15 months in hospital following a pub car park attack, teenager Cameron Shirley has suffered a new blow — he has coronavirus.

The Shanklin teenager's mum, Alyssa Shirley, announced on Facebook this afternoon that Cam, the subject of the Cam's Army campaign to stop young male violence, has contracted Covid-19 in the Portsmouth hospital unit where he is recovering.

Alyssa said on Facebook: "Yesterday the unit Cameron is in called.

He has contracted coronavirus (tested positive) .

"He is showing symptoms of a heavy cold coming today but still smiling. "We have been unable to visit for a little over two weeks now as they were supposedly on lockdown, "Shame really as my boy does not deserve this after a 15-month battle already. Let's hope its mild."

Cam was hospitalised in December 2018 after an attack in the car park of the Fishbourne Inn.

He was at one stage given 48 hours to live.

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Since then he has been making a slow but steady recovery in specialist mainland hospital units, latterly the intensive care at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.