Doctors have reportedly decided to abandon Michael Schumacher's waking-up process from induced coma for the time being due to a number of setbacks.

Three weeks ago, it was announced that the Formula 1 champion would be slowly awoken from the coma that he has been in since he hit his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the French Alps on December 29.

However, according to German magazine Focus, setbacks forced doctors at the Grenoble University Hospital to put the process on hold last week.

The seven-time F1 champion has undergone two operations on his brain since suffering the accident.