Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba has started to eat again and has been able to leave his bed as he maintains “encouraging progress” in his remarkable recovery from a mid-game cardiac arrest.

Muamba remains in intensive care but his condition has been upgraded to “serious but stable.” Mupltiple reports claim that Muamba has been able to get out of bed for a short time and has started to eat again.

Muamba‘s heart was without a beat of it’s own for 78 minutes after he collapsed during a FA Cup quarterfinal match on March 17th.