A 103-year-old man has recovered from Covid-19 in Pakistan to become one of the oldest survivors of the disease in the world, beating the odds in a country with a weak healthcare system, Reuters quoted his relatives and doctors as saying.

Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the mountainous northern district of Chitral, was released last week from an emergency response centre after testing positive in early July.

“We were worried for him given his age, but he wasn't worried at all,” Alim's son Sohail Ahmed told Reuters on the phone from his village, close to the border with China and Afghanistan.

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