Read more about the article Woman, 108, Applauded As She Leaves Hospital After Beating COVID
Petronila Cardenas leaving the hospital. (Lima2019_Prensa/Newsflash)
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Woman, 108, Applauded As She Leaves Hospital After Beating COVID

This is the moment a 108-year-old Peruvian woman leaves hospital amid applause from medics after overcoming her battle against COVID-19. Petronila Cardenas, 108, was discharged from a Temporary Attention and Isolation Centre (CAAT) by the National Hospital Hipolito Unanue in the Peruvian capital Lima on 16th December. Cardenas travelled to…

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January 28, 2021
Read more about the article First Case Of COVID-19 & Flu At The Same Time In Mexico
Ministry of Health Epidemiology Director Jose Luis Alomia during a press conference. (Newsflash)
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First Case Of COVID-19 & Flu At The Same Time In Mexico

Medics in Mexico have sounded the alarm after identifying the first confirmed case of a patient testing positive for both COVID-19 and influenza. The news was reported by Mexico’s Ministry of Health Epidemiology Director Jose Luis Alomia during a regular press conference where he informs citizens on the country’s situation…

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October 29, 2020
Read more about the article Son Dies As COVID Stressed Medics Miss Mums Illness
George Varzaru, the young man who commited suicide after his mother died. (Newsflash)
Accidents

Son Dies As COVID Stressed Medics Miss Mums Illness

A heartbroken Romanian man has apparently killed himself after his mother was not properly treated by a local hospital struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, and later died. The man's 49-year-old mum, Gabriela Varzaru, had gone to Craiova County Hospital with chest pains where medics told her that she…

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October 28, 2020
Read more about the article Man Survives After Falling Spanner Lodges Into Skull
A falling wrench impales the top of a pedestrian’s skull in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, on 6 August. (Shenyang Television / Real Press)
General News

Man Survives After Falling Spanner Lodges Into Skull

A passerby has incredibly survived after a spanner that was dropped by a worker installing an air-conditioning unit on a nearby high-rise building embedded itself in his skull. The man collapsed to the ground but was still conscious after he was hit by the workman's tool in Shenyang, capital of…

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August 26, 2020
Read more about the article Docs Find Gourd In Mans Bottom During X-Ray
A Chinese man was found to have a large gourd in his bottom after having a scan. (Xi’an Gaoxin Hospital / Real Press)
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Docs Find Gourd In Mans Bottom During X-Ray

Baffled doctors treating a man who turned up with intense abdominal pain discovered he had a huge gourd up his bottom. The man had turned up to be treated at Xi'an Gaoxin Hospital in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province in north-western China, telling medics that he was suffering from abdominal…

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August 25, 2020