Mumbai (Maharashtra): A nonagenarian Japanese woman who was a COVID patient has won her battle against the deadly virus while she was stuck in Maharashtra's Mumbai amid the imposition of nationwide lockdown. Unfortunately, her 94-year-old husband, who was a painter by profession, succumbed to the disease on June 3.
Doctors said that she had excellently responded the treatment and its the first reported incident of a foreign national in the nineties defeating COVID-19.
Like each year, the Japanese couple visited India in February and stayed at IC colony in Mumbai's Borivali. They were scheduled to return to Japan in March but due to extensive spread of coronavirus across the globe, they stayed back during the lockdown.
"She was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Kandivali on June 9. From 9 to 26 June, she was being treated and doctors and staff of the hospital relentlessly tried to save her. Finally, she tested negative for corona and was discharged," Dr Brijesh Pande.
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