ROME: A 101-year-old man has been released from a hospital in Italy after recovering from the novel coronavirus.
Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the Italian city of Rimini, has made the announcement and his “truly extraordinary” recovery gave “hope for the future.”
The man, who has been named only as “Mr P” was admitted to hospital in Rimini, northeast Italy, last week after testing positive for Covid-19 and left the hospital on Thursday.
“Mr P made it. The family brought him home yesterday evening. To teach us that even at 101 years the future is not written,” said the deputy mayor.
Mr P was born in 1919, during the Spanish flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed between 30 million and 50 million people worldwide.
The town of Rimini had registered 1,189 cases of coronavirus as of Thursday, according to the Italian Civil Protection Department. Italy has been among the worst hit with more deaths than any other country including China.
According to figures from Johns Hopkins University, there have been 80,589 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy and 8,215 deaths. Authorities in 197 countries and territories have reported more than 549,000 novel coronavirus cases worldwide.
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