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

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.
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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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