Ada Zanusso fell ill in early March in the Residenza Maria Grazia, a nursing home in the Piedmontese province of Biella, around 100 kilometres west of Milan.
In the same nursing home, 21 other residents have succumbed to the coronavirus, Italian daily La Repubblica reported.
“Someone up there forgot about me,” the paper quoted Zanusso as saying.
According to her son Giampiero, who keeps in touch via video calls, “she still reads without glasses, she’s curious, she always wants to know what we are doing”.
