Ms. Lu, 96, recovered after three days of treatment in the Hangzhou hospital special department for corona virus infection.

Ms. Lu is considered the oldest patient to recover from corona virus infection in China. She is 4 years older than the previous record holder, a 92-year-old patient recovered last week.

Ms. Lu was transferred from a local hospital in her hometown of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province to the first Zhejiang University Hospital in Hangzhou capital on February 10. She was admitted to the intensive care unit due to her advanced age and severe symptoms.

Her health improved after the doctors at Zhejiang University Hospital applied a series of viral treatments. She was discharged on the afternoon of February 13 after two positive viral tests and positive CT scan results, the hospital said in a statement on social media yesterday. She will be taken back to Ningbo Hospital for further treatment.

A video posted by Zhejiang News local newspaper showed that Ms. Lu was in a wheelchair carried by medical staff wearing protective equipment from Hangzhou Hospital to an ambulance to return home.

Dr. Sheng Jifang, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, said she contracted nCoV from a daughter. She became infected with a virus in a meeting of friends and went home to infect her mother. Currently, her two daughters are being isolated and treated at hospitals in Ningbo.

Liang Tingbo, the hospital's party secretary, said the treatment of elderly patients like Ms. Lu is difficult because they often have background conditions such as high blood pressure and heart disease. A team of medical doctors tried to cure Ms. Lu so that her condition did not get worse within the first 48 hours. She had high blood pressure but was optimistic during treatment and recovered very quickly, he added.

Last week, a 92-year-old man with Covid-19 recovered his health and left Yichang Hospital, Hubei Province. At the time, he was the oldest person in China to recover from two weeks of treatment.

Starting from Wuhan City, the Covid-19 epidemic spread across 31 provinces and cities of China and appeared in 27 countries and territories, causing more than 67,000 people infected and more than 1,500 deaths worldwide, of which There is an old lady over 80 years old in Japan.