{"id":27335,"date":"2020-06-12T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T08:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/97-year-old-agra-man-recovers-from-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T08:13:09","slug":"97-year-old-agra-man-recovers-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27335","title":{"rendered":"97-year-old Agra man recovers from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>District Magistrate hails the nonagenarian&#8217;s recovery as \u2018ray of hope\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/97-year-old-agra-man-recovers-from-covid-19\/article31810356.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nonagenarian man from Agra has recovered from COVID-19, with the local authorities saying the recuperation has come as a \u201cray of hope\u201d for the novel coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1923-born man (name withheld) was discharged on Wednesday from a private hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is one of the oldest COVID-19 patients in the country to recover successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agra District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh, on Thursday, hailed the recovery as a \u201cmatter of pride\u201d for the historic city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur team was keeping an eye on his condition daily, and the day his coronavirus test came negative after recovering, we felt so delighted. We hear of people trying to take their lives sometimes when they contract COVID-19, but not this 97-year-old man. His recovery has come as a ray of hope,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also tweeted on Thursday about his recovery, saying, it will lend hope, especially to people of the older age, and wrote, \u201cSalute to #CoronaWarrior\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was admitted on April 29 to Nayati Hospital, a level-2 hospital for COVID-19 care in Agra, sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has hypertension and initially needed a bit of oxygen supply, but recovered fine, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District Magistrate hails the nonagenarian&#8217;s recovery as \u2018ray of hope\u2019 PTI A nonagenarian man from Agra has recovered from COVID-19, with the local authorities saying the recuperation has come as a \u201cray of hope\u201d for the novel coronavirus patients. The 1923-born man (name withheld) was discharged on Wednesday from a private hospital. He is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27335","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=27335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27335\/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=27335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}