A 23-year-old Italian model still has coronavirus 55 days after her diagnosis, experts have said. Biana Dobroiu was hospitalised on February 28 with a fever of 40.7C and diagnosed with Covid-19 on the same day at Sant’Orsola hospital in the city of Bologna, northern Italy.
She was discharged on March 6 and told to self-isolate at home as non-serious coronavirus cases were not being treated in hospitals at the time.
Ms Dobroiu, a student and model, remained in isolation and continued undergoing regular testing, giving four positive results and one unclear result.
Her sixth test last week was also positive, six weeks after her initial diagnosis. The hospital’s infection expert Luciano Attard said: “The patient was fine, but the tests kept