A 102-year-old Italian woman, Italica Grondona, has survived the coronavirus disease or COVID-19 after spending more than 20 days in hospital.<\/p>\n
Although the aged are said to be among those highly vulnerable to COVID-19, Grondona recovered from coronavirus in the northern Italian city of Genoa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe nicknamed her \u2018Highlander\u2019 \u2013 the immortal,\u201d said Vera Sicbaldi, the doctor who treated Grondona told CNN. \u201cItalica represents a hope for all the elderly facing this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Sicbaldi said the doctors did \u201cvery little\u201d and that Grondona recovered on her own.<\/p>\n
The average age of those who have tested positive for coronavirus and subsequently died in Italy is 78, according to the country\u2019s National Health Institute.<\/p>\n
Grondona was hospitalised at the beginning of March for \u201cmild heart failure\u201d when it was discovered she had mild coronavirus symptoms.<\/p>\n
Doctors said her case impressed them so much that they decided to study it deeper.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got serological samples, she is the first patient we know that might have gone through the \u2018Spanish flu\u2019 since she was born in 1917,\u201d Sicbaldi explained, referring to the 1918\/1919 flu pandemic that killed at least 50 million people worldwide, according to the United States-based Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n
Sicbaldi said Grondona left hospital on March 26 and was now in a care home.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Grondona wouldn\u2019t be the first centenarian to have overcome the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 102-year-old Italian woman, Italica Grondona, has survived the coronavirus disease or COVID-19 after spending more than 20 days in hospital. Although the aged are said to be among those highly vulnerable to COVID-19, Grondona recovered from coronavirus in the northern Italian city of Genoa. \u201cWe nicknamed her \u2018Highlander\u2019 \u2013 the immortal,\u201d said Vera Sicbaldi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":117935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,15,9,2],"tags":[52563,53284],"yoast_head":"\n