A 101-year-old man who tested positive for coronavirus has been released from hospital, Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of Rimini, Italy, said in a statement Thursday.

The man, referred to as "Mr. P" in the statement, was born in 1919 — in the middle of another tragic world pandemic.

“A hope for the future of all of us in the body of a person over one hundred years old, when the sad chronicles of these weeks mechanically tell us every day of a virus that is raging especially among the elderly. Mr. P. made it. The family brought him home yesterday evening. To teach us that even at 101 years the future is not written,” Lisi said.

Mr. P. was hospitalized in Rimini last week after testing positive for Covid-19.

Rimini registered 1,189 coronavirus cases as of Thursday, according to the Italian Civil Protection Department.