{"id":22048,"date":"2020-03-27T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T07:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/101-yr-old-italian-recovers-from-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T07:02:40","slug":"101-yr-old-italian-recovers-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=22048","title":{"rendered":"101-yr-old Italian recovers from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>The story of Mr. P. is a rare positive news item in a country under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 101-year-old man in the coastal Italian city of Rimini has recovered from the novel coronavirus, the disease which has infected a total of 80,589 people in the country and has claimed the lives of 8,215 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italian news reports said that the man, referred to only as \u201cMr. P.\u201d, is believed to be the oldest person to recover from the disease, reports Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Gloria Lisi, Vice-Mayor of Rimini, Mr. P., who was born in 1919, was admitted to the Rimini hospital \u2014 Ospedale Infermi di Rimini \u2014 a week ago after testing positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a televised interview on Thursday, Lisi said that as the patient began to recover it became \u201cthe story everyone talked about\u201d in the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEveryone saw hope for the future of all of us in the recovery of a person more than 100 years old,\u201d Lisi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery day we see the sad stories from these weeks that mechanically tell about a virus that rages and is especially aggressive on the elderly. But he survived. Mr. P. survived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisi further said: \u201cHis family brought him home last night (Wednesday), leaving behind a lesson that even at the age of 101, the future is not set.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of Mr. P. is a rare positive news item in a country under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Italy has the highest number of fatalities, even surpassing China where the coronavirus originated last December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Mr. P. is a rare positive news item in a country under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. A 101-year-old man in the coastal Italian city of Rimini has recovered from the novel coronavirus, the disease which has infected a total of 80,589 people in the country and has claimed the lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}