A 110-year-old Indian woman named Siddamma has survived the coronavirus. <br /><br />A hospital in Chitradurga in southern India discharged her on August 1st after she tested negative twice in 24 hours.<br /><br />The woman, from a nearby village, showed mild symptoms on July 27th and was shifted immediately to the hospital. Doctors said she had recovered well and was fit to go home.<br /><br />Speaking to reporters, Siddamma, said she was terrified when she was taken away from her family in an ambulance to a hospital where everyone wore masks and gave her medicines every few hours.<br /><br />“The doctors were nice but I did not like the rice gruel they gave there,” she said a little overwhelmed with the attention focussed on her. <br /><br />Siddamma said she wass happy to get back to her grandchildren and her regular diet: soft balls made of finger millet, a local cereal, which she dips in vegetable stew and swallows.
