A 101-year-old man has been released from a hospital in Italy after recovering from coronavirus.

According to CNN, the man, who has been named only as "Mr P" was admitted to hospital in Rimini, northeast Italy last week after testing positive for Covid-19 and has now left the hospital.

Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the Italian city of Rimini said his "truly extraordinary" recovery gave "hope for the future."

Mr P was born in 1919, during the Spanish flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed between 30 million and 50 million people worldwide.

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