Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash

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This is the moment a COVID-19-positive orchestra conductor moves his hands as if wielding a baton after being removed from a ventilator as his condition improves.

Conductor Andres Manuel Presumido Martinez was intubated in the intensive care unit of the University Central Hospital of Asturias in northern Spain after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and suffering serious respiratory problems.

The 60-year-old man is the musical director of the Alejandro Casona theatre in Oviedo in Asturias and was taken off a ventilator on Sunday as his condition improved.

In the video, Martinez can be seen lying in the hospital bed with classical music playing and he moves his hands as if conducting the orchestra playing the piece.

Local media report that Andres is very “thankful and touched by the public health system as it is a perfectly in-tune orchestra”.

The musical director will reportedly be taken out of the ICU and onto a normal ward tomorrow before he is scheduled to be discharged on Thursday.

Local media report he is waiting to hug his wife and daughter as he has not seen them since he was hospitalised. He told reporters he plans to listen to classic opera piece Nessun Dorma on his return home.

According to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins University Spain has registered 136,675 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 13,341 deaths and 40,437 recoveries.

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