103-year-old Pakistani man becomes one of the oldest in the world to survive Covid-19

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  A paramedic wearing protective gear takes a nasal swab of 103 year-old Abdul Alim, to be tested for the coronavirus at the Aga Khan Health Services Emergency Response Centre in Booni, Chitral. — Photo provided by Reuters
  
  
  A 103-year-old man has recovered from Covid-19 in Pakistan to become one of the oldest survivors of the disease in the world, beating the odds in a country with a weak healthcare system, his relatives and doctors said.
  
  Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the mountainous northern district of Chitral, was released last week from an emergency response centre after testing positive in early July.
  
  “We were worried for him given his age, but he wasn't worried at all,” Alim's son Sohail Ahmed told Reuters on the phone from his village, close to the border with China and Afghanistan.
  
  Ahmed quoted his father as saying that he had been through a lot in life and the coronavirus did not scare him. He did however, not like being in isolation.

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[Path-Finder]

Welldone fella.

 

[Safriz]

بابا بڑا ڈھیٹ ہے

This old man is a tough cookie

 

[Dalit]

That's the resolve.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Chitralis are so badass they turn coronavirus into randi-rona-virus.

 

[TNT]

People in high altitude areas have stronger lungs and stronger immune systems. Still at that age its a wonder and proves u cant die untill ur time has not arrived.

 

[Imran Khan]

29509 remain active cases in pakistan hope one more week and we will be corona free country