Berlin, July 8: Corinna, wife of Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher, said that her husband's health is making slow but good progress.

In her first public appearance since the skiing accident that left her husband in an induced coma last December, Corinna said that Michael's condition is slowly getting better, reports Efe.

Corinna was smiling and joking while handing out chocolates at a riding event in her native Switzerland.

The former seven-times F1 world champion is currently being treated in a rehab clinic near his family home in Lausanne in Switzerland after leaving Grenoble hospital in France where he had been hospitalised for months after a fatal skiing accident last December which left him comatose.

After Schumacher left the hspital, fans across the globe were elated and prayed for his speedy recovery.

IANS