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Coronavirus survivors: aged 93, this Indian man did everything with his wife. Including getting Covid-19
- Thomas Abraham is thought to be the oldest coronavirus survivor in India
- He and wife Mariyamma, 88, have never been apart since marrying in 1947. ‘If we can recover at this age, we could have a few more innings together,’ he says
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When 93-year-old Thomas Abraham was being treated for Covid-19 in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Kottayam, southern India, the one thing he missed was making black coffee for his wife, Mariyamma, 88.
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He need not have worried, the two would soon be having their morning cuppa together again – Mariyamma had contracted the disease too and both were being treated in the same hospital.
“[At first] we were in separate wards but when both of us started missing each other, the doctors moved us to a two-bedded ICU,” recalled Abraham, now back at his house in Pathanamthitta, Kerala.
Abraham is thought to be the oldest coronavirus survivor in India. The doctors treating him called his recovery “a miracle” because any patient above the age of 65 is considered high risk.
Abraham, his wife and six other members of his family are thought to have caught the virus from his youngest son, Moncy Abraham, his wife Remany Moncy and son Rijo, who arrived in Kerala from Italy at the end of February.
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