While the ongoing pandemic is taking lives, the majority of people are actually beating it. On today’s date, it stands at 83.04%.
Ramananda Teertha, a Hindu Priest from the city of Hyderabad has become the oldest recorded man in the country to beat COVID-19. Aged a whopping 110 years, Teertha was reportedly admitted to the Gandhi Hospital on April 24. At that time, he was showing moderate COVID symptoms. The information was shared by the officials at a state-run hospital with the press.
They further informed that the priest does not have any co-morbidity. They will keep him at the hospital for a few more days to observe him. Soon, he will be transferred to a non-oxygen bed and put on a liquid diet.
In a video released by the hospital, Teertha can be seen answering the doctors’ questions lying on a bed. The priest informs that a few years ago he had come to Gandhi Hospital for leg surgery.
Teertha originally stays at an Ashram in Keesara, Telangana. For his sadhana, the priest is said to have spent nearly two decades living in the Himalayas.
The priest’s recovery is no less than a miracle and stands as a hope for the elderly who have been attacked by the virus.
In general, recoveries are considered harder for the aged and they are more likely to require hospitalization. As of March 2021, about 88 percent of people who died from COVID-19 were in the age group of 45 and above. The senile are also more prone to re-infection compared to those aged under 65 years. However, timely treatment and admission to hospital have led to the recovery of a good number of older people.
The central government’s data till April indicated that the majority of cases lie among the younger population of those aged between 15 and 44 years.