A 106-year-old man, who was four years old during the 1918 Spanish Flu, has recovered from COVID-19 in Delhi. The centenarian man was discharged from Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital (RGSSH), where his wife, son and another family member also recovered after contracting coronavirus.

A senior doctor the hospital told a daily: “Perhaps, he is the first reported case of COVID-19 in Delhi who also went through the dreaded Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, which like COVID-19 had also ravaged the world. And, he not only recovered from COVID-19, he recovered faster than his son, who is also very old.”

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Spanish Flu was a pandemic, which hit the world 102 years ago, and affected nearly one-third of the global population at the times.