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Centennial Chinese Man Becomes the Oldest Person to Beat Coronavirus – Reports

© AFP 2023 / NOEL CELISPassengers wearing protective facemasks arrive at the Changsha railway station in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province on March 8, 2020.
Passengers wearing protective facemasks arrive at the Changsha railway station in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province on March 8, 2020.   - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A 100-year-old Chinese man has been discharged from a hospital in Wuhan, becoming the oldest person to recover from the new coronavirus infection, media said Sunday.

The man was admitted to the hospital in the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak on 24 February, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

Apart from the flu-like respiratory disease, the elderly patient had Alzheimer’s, hypertension and heart problems.

He underwent 13 days of therapy, which included treatment with anti-viral drugs, plasma transfusions and traditional Chinese medicine, and was cleared on Saturday.

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