All have been great: 99-year-old Duisburg survives Corona infection

The Coronavirus pandemic, keeps the world in breath: more than five million people are already infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2 – 182.644 of them so far in Germany.

99–years of Duisburg survives Corona infection

A 99-Year-old from Duisburg has survived an infection with the Coronavirus. The elderly Patient had been dismissed after a good four weeks to recover from the Helios Marien hospital in Duisburg-hochfeld, said a spokeswoman on Thursday. Therefore, the man after a positive Corona Test with respiratory complaints came to the hospital. During his stay there, he had developed a slight pneumonia, but only relatively mild symptoms. Now he is healthy again.

"Since the elderly are the most affected risk group in the pandemic, we are encouraged from such an output sehr", station Manager Max Martin Pasternack said. Fixed reference persons and is a regular exchange with his family would have relieved the Senior of the week-long Isolation without a visit. "All have been great, and we had all the time a good feeling, even though we see him konnten", his 68-year-old son said, according to the memo.

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