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Coronavirus: 'Miracle Man' survives 38 days on a ventilator

A survival story from Kolkata, India. Netai Das Mukherjee survived the Coronavirus infection, after spending an extraordinary 38 days on a hospital ventilator. He had been distributing food to the poor when he caught the virus. He's also diabetic, and has been called the Miracle Man in the Indian media. He's still recovering at home, from where he spoke to our reporter Rahul Tandon.

(Photo: the medical team at the AMRI Kolkata private hospital, with Mr Mukherjee in bed
Credit: AMRI/ Netai Das Mukherjee )

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