A 96-year-old woman in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district recovered from Covid-19 in nine days.
Health officiala said on Tuesday that she been discharged from hospital following recovery.
“The woman from Hiriyur in this district was admitted to the state-run hospital on June 27 for treatment after she tested positive. Her recovery is remarkable and she was discharged on Monday,” Chitradurga health official M Hanumantappa said.
He said the nonagenarian woman seems to have contracted the disease from a 65-year-old man in her town.
Of the 90 Covid cases reported in the district, around 200 km from Bengaluru, till date, 52 have been cured and discharged so far, including four on Tuesday, while 38 are under treatment as active cases, with not a single death.