Centenarian leaves hospital after recovering from coronavirus

A 103-year-old woman was discharged from the hospital in Wuhan on Wednesday to mark the oldest cured novel coronavirus patient in the province that has been the epicenter of the outbreak, according to Chutian Metropolis Daily.

The centenarian was admitted to the Liyuan Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology on March 1 when she was in severe condition with other illness including Alzheimer's disease.

Zhou Wei, deputy director of the hospital's No 4 infection unit, said they gave traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine as treatment to the woman and also provided additional care for her other diseases.

According to Zhou, he and his colleagues were getting used to reading her condition and needs through her bodily reactions or eye contact as the toothless woman was not able to talk well but could pronounce only one character at a time.

Brief notes such as "avoid mistakenly inhaling", "avoid falling out of bed" and "completely incapable of independent living'' could be seen at the woman's bed to remind nurses on different shifts of the special care for her.

To everyone's surprise, the centenarian recovered faster than expected and could even remember what some of the medics looked like according to her reactions when they came to see her.