Great news amidst the sad stories that surround the survival of coronavirus especially among the elderly, as a 101-year-old Italian man recently defeated the virus after being on admission for a week.
According to CNN, the man, only referred to as “Mr. P,” left a Rimini hospital on Thursday after making a full recovery from COVID-19
“The family brought him home yesterday evening,” Gloria Lisi, deputy mayor of Rimini, in Italy, told Italian publication Rimini Today. “To teach us that even at 101 years, the future is not written.”
“His quick recovery has been deemed “truly extraordinary and gives “hope for the future.” She added.
Not only did he survive the novel coronavirus disease, the man, born in 1919, also survived the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed about 30million people around the world.
