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ROME: Italy, a country in the grip of the world’s worst novel coronavirus epidemic, celebrated on Thursday the remarkable recovery of 101-year-old man from the Covid-19 disease. The man, identified only as Mr P, was hospitalised last week and sent home on Wednesday after fighting off the virus, his town of Rimini said in a statement. “It is in the darkest of times that certain stories take on a broader meaning,” Rimini’s deputy Mayor Gloria Lisi said in the statement. Recalling that Mr P was born in the midst of the Spanish flu outbreak, which killed at least 50 million people during 1918-20, Lisi said his recovery gives “hope for the future of all of us.” Elderly people are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19. (AFP)
Last week Italy’s National Health Institute reported an average mortality rate for Covid-19 patients of 7.1 per cent, rising to 22.9 per cent for those aged 90 and above.
Rimini, a beach town on Italy’s eastern Adriatic coast, is in Emilia-Romagna, the second-most affected region by the epidemic after Lombardy.
On Wednesday, nearly 75,000 infections and around 7,500 deaths were reported across the whole of Italy. In Emilia-Romagna there were about 10,000 cases and 1,077 fatalities.
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