Alma Clara Corsini has been able to return home after beating the illness, which has so far claimed 6820 lives in Italy.

She was admitted to a hospital near Modena on March 5 and managed to recover without the help of antiviral medication. 

“I’m fine, I’m absolutely fine,” she told local media, praising the doctors and nurses who helped her recover. 

“They were wonderful, the people who looked after me.”

Corsini has been dishcarged from hospital and returned to the nursing home where she lives in the town of Fanano, near Modena.