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Video: Happy to be alive, 74-year-old man shares his gruelling COVID-19 experience

Pierre Fonteyne is slowly learning to walk again after being hospitalised for a month



Pierre Fonteyne -- the 74-year-old patient at the Erasme Hospital in Brussels -- trying to get up.
Image Credit: Twitter/AFP

Dubai: A 74-year-old man in Brussels was tested positive for COVID-19 on March 19.

After a month, lying on the hospital bed motionless, he needed physiotherapy to start walking.

Pierre Fonteyne -- the 74-year-old patient at the Erasme Hospital in Brussels -- is slowly learning to walk again.

In this video, he shares his gruelling experience.

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