Milkha Singh has been moved from COVID ICU to Medical ICU, mentioned a household spokesperson.© AFP
Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh is “stable” and he has been shifted out of COVID ICU to a different part of the PGIMER hospital, a press release from his household mentioned on Wednesday. The 91-year-old had contracted the dreaded virus last month. “Milkha ji is stable and is out of the COVID ICU, but is in the Medical ICU,” a spokesperson of the Milkha household mentioned. “Thank you for your continued prayers and good wishes,” it added. PGIMER sources mentioned that Milkha Singh was “fine, stable and recovering”. “He has tested COVID negative after which he was shifted out of the COVID ICU,” the sources mentioned.
The sources additional mentioned {that a} medical crew comprising senior docs of the institute have been intently monitoring his each day well being progress. Milkha’s spouse Nirmal Kaur (85), who had additionally contracted the virus days after her husband examined optimistic, had died at a private hospital in Mohali on Sunday on account of COVID-related problems. Kaur was a former girls’s nationwide volleyball crew captain.
The couple have been suspected to have contracted the an infection from a home assist. Milkha Singh was admitted to PGIMER on June 3 after his oxygen ranges dipped at dwelling following remedy on the Fortis hospital in Mohali for every week.
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The legendary athlete is a four-time Asian Games gold medallist and 1958 Commonwealth Games champion however his best efficiency stays the fourth-place end within the 400m closing of the 1960 Rome Olympics.
His timing on the Italian capital was a nationwide report for 38 years until Paramjeet Singh broke it in 1998. He additionally represented India within the 1956 and 1964 Olympics and was bestowed the Padma Shri in 1959.
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