Time for a Haircut After Distant News

A patient who was unconscious and upon awakening was informed that his father passed away two months ago, what is his status regarding getting a haircut?

He may be lenient and get a haircut after being rebuked, even within thirty days from when he was informed of the death. Some are stringent and wait thirty days before the rebuke (however, certainly he does not need to be stringent with the custom not to rely on rebuke for three months).

It is written in the Shiyurei Knesset HaGedolah, Siman Tav: "The collector said, I wrote this for law and not for practice, and I was compelled to do so by the essence of the Gemara and from the words of the Ramban, that in the case of distant news, even about one's father and mother, the decree of thirty days is not observed, only the decree of rebuke, and whenever he is rebuked, even within thirty days of the news, he may get a haircut, and nevertheless, it is customary not to get a haircut within thirty days. See in the response of the Mahari, Siman 22, and in the Bach. Later, I found in the handwritten gloss of the Me'ari written as follows: there are doubts in the words of the Ramban, whether for a haircut thirty days are also required and that his friends rebuke him, or only that his friends rebuke him and thirty days are not required. I asked the sages of Salonika, and they replied to me that this was a recent event, and they were divided on the matter, and they asked my teacher, Rabbi Ner, and he said, according to logic, thirty days are also needed, although there is no necessity in the language. Later, they found the Ashirit gloss at the end of Moed Katan on the words of the Ramban, and from that gloss, almost everyone agreed that thirty days are needed. And to me, the small one, it seems that on the contrary, from that gloss, it appears that it is not needed."