Schumacher has been transferred to the University Hospital of Lausanne,the Swiss hospital confirmed on Monday.

The spokesperson declined to say what unit Schumacher,who lives with his family in a town between Lausanne and Geneva,was being treated in,citing medical secrecy and family privacy.

Schumacher slammed his head on a rock while skiing in the French resort of Meribel in December and was put in a medically induced coma after undergoing brain surgery at the hospital in the Alpine city of Grenoble.

His family said at the end of January that drugs used to keep the 45-year-old in his deep sleep were being reduced to bring him back to consciousness,but little had filtered out about his condition since then.