image: Gazetta di Modena/ Ospedale di Pavullo
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95-year-old defeats coronavirus: “Alma, you rock!”
These are images that give people a little courage in despair: hospital teams who are happy that the elderly are being discharged. Alma Clara Corsini (95) did it.
One bad news chases the next in Italy; the military is needed to move the coffins from the worst affected places. The story of Alma Clara Corsini gives the country some courage: the 95-year-old woman is the first coronavirus patient to be cured from the hospital in the province of Modena.
She comes from the 2,000-inhabitant town of Fanano in the Emilia-Romagna region, but her case was also Italy’s Social Democrat Partito Democratico worth posting: “Good news that gives us hope,” wrote the party. “Welcome back, Alma, you rock”, the mayor of her home town Fanano posted on Facebook. He also appreciated that, thanks to the attentive staff, the virus has not spread to the retirement home where the 95-year-old lives.
“I’m still a good fighter”
She had noticed a slight cough without any symptoms, but was taken to the hospital immediately. There, their respiratory problems increased, the doctors diagnosed the virus. A Baccording to the “Gazetta di Modena” However, the doctors did not dare to give the old lady antiretroviral and anti-inflammatory drugs. She healed practically on her own and soon no longer needed oxygen. “Despite my years, I’m still a good fighter,” the newspaper quotes her.
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Reports of elderly patients who have survived Covid-19 have also been published in other countries in recent days. The English service of the Iranian news agency Fars has reported two such cases in the past few days. On according to the agency 101-year-old man showed the victory sign to the doctor treating him when he was released. He is now living with his family again, according to the Iranian media.
picture: fars / Panzdah-e-Khordad Hospital Varamin
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Iranian survivor turns 104 in May
He is not even the oldest surviving patient: According to Iranian information, this is 103-year-old Khavar Ahmadi. The Fars agency released a series of pictures of the lady after she returned from the hospital. In a photo she walks by the hand of a nurse. One picture shows her with her ID to prove her age, on another she holds a piece of paper: “Thank God, I defeated the corona virus!”
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The lady turns 104 in May, making her older than a Chinese woman who won the fight against the disease in Wuhan. The clinic staff made a video with hearts and smileys on the occasion of Zhang Guangfen’s release from the clinic. So she was brought back to her nursing home. Except for mild chronic bronchitis, the woman had no underlying illnesses, the doctor Zeng Yulan said quoted.
Screenshot / Chutian Metropolis Daily
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For people between the ages of 50 and 60, the risk of the disease becoming more severe increases steadily. According to previous knowledge, the risk of infection is not higher in old age.