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ROME — A grandmother aged 95 has become the oldest person in Italy to recover from coronavirus.

Alma Clara Corsini has been able to return home after beating the illness, which has so far claimed 5,500 lives and infected nearly 60,000 people in Italy.

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She was admitted to a hospital near Modena on March 5 and managed to recover without the help of antiviral medication. “I’m fine, I’m absolutely fine,” she told local media, praising the doctors and nurses who helped her recover. “They were wonderful, the people who looked after me.”

Corsini returned to the nursing home in which she lives in the town of Fanano, near Modena.