Albert Chambers, who turns 100 in July, thanks NHS staff at Tickhill Road Hospital in Doncaster after overcoming COVID-19.
There have been several cases of elderly patients recovering from coronavirus in the UK in recent weeks.who was pictured arm in arm with a smiling NHS worker after leaving North Manchester General Hospital.Ewart Lockton left hospital last month after recovering from coronavirus. Pic: Sophie Edwards/Facebook
Meanwhile in Italy, a 103-year-old woman who lived through the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 has recovered from COVID-19. Ada Zanusso, from the northern Italian town of Lessona, was conspicuously undramatic about her ordeal, saying she had"some fever" - despite drifting in and out of consciousness while confined to bed for a week with the illness.She advised others who fall ill with the virus to"give yourself courage, have faith".
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