Great-grandmother, 97, becomes Brazil's oldest coronavirus survivor
On Sunday, however, Dal Colleto was pushed in a wheelchair out of Sao Paulo’s Vila Nova Star hospital to applause from doctors and nurses, becoming the oldest known survivor of COVID-19 in Brazil, the Latin American country worst-hit by the outbreak.
The sole survivor of an Italian family comprised of 11 siblings, Dal Colleto lived alone in the port city of Santos, Rede D’Or São Luiz, which controls the Vila Nova Star hospital said in a statement. While she was hospitalized, Dal Colleto was put on oxygen and admitted to intensive care, the statement said.
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