A 100-year-old woman recovers from COVID-19. (Kenta Sujino)
OTSU Centenarian Ayako Ito is healthy and ready to celebrate her 101st birthday in June after a month-long bout with COVID-19, thanks to a positive attitude and the support of her doctor.
Ito, an Otsu resident, attended a news conference at the Shiga prefectural government office on May 10 to talk about her uplifting recovery.
She had to be hospitalized for a month and her condition even worsened at one point.
“I trusted my doctor and depended on him completely,” Ito said, adding that it was important to have a strong will to overcome one s own difficulties.