A 6-month-old baby and a 102-year-old woman have survived COVID-19 after a long battle against the virus in a hospital in Italy.
Baby Leonardo finally returned home after a 50-day stay in a hospital. Local mayor Marco Ballarini called him ‘the wonderful face of hope’ and thanked the adorable baby for helping lift the spirits in the northern region.
“Today we have a reason to smile and be happy, to feel like we are part of a community. Today, we look at the wonderful face of hope. Corbetta welcomes home little Leonardo who has just been released from hospital after defeating COVID-19,” he said.
“Thanks a lot Leo, and thanks to your parents who never gave up. They brought summer to the hearts of all Corbetta citizens! Strength Corbetta!”
Baby Leonardo’s mother said: “I was worried a lot, especially at night. I do not wish that on any mother.”
The mother said that her baby had a fever and his heart rate increased after her husband’s co-worker had tested positive for coronavirus.
102-year-old Italica Grondona, also from Northern Italy, spent 20 days in hospital before she made a miraculous recovery.
In an interview with CNN, doctor Vera Sicbaldi said: “We nicknamed her ‘Highlander’ – the immortal,” adding that the elderly woman “represents hope for all the elderly people facing this pandemic.”
According to records from Italy’s National Health institute, the average age of someone to succumbed to coronavirus is 78, making Italica Grondona’s case remarkable.
Health workers were so impressed that they decided to study Grondona’s case deeper.
“She only had some mild coronavirus symptoms, so we tested her and she was positive, but we did very little, she recovered on her own,” Dr. Sicbali said.
“We got serological samples, she is the first patient we know that might have gone through the ‘Spanish flu’ since she was born in 1917,” the doctor added.
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