Second World War veteran beats Covid-19 to celebrate 104th birthday

Major Wooten holds a celebratory milkshake on his 104th birthday (Holly Wooten McDonald/AP)

A man from Alabama in the US, who spent the Second World War repairing bomb-damaged trains in France, recovered from Covid-19 in time to mark his 104th birthday.

Major Wooten was physically drained and a little fuzzy mentally after contracting coronavirus, but appears to be on the mend, said his granddaughter Holley Wooten McDonald.