After days on ventilator, 11-year-old COVID-19 patient wakes up

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa reports an additional improvement in the condition of the 11-year-old girl who had been in serious condition with COVID-19.

The girl, named as Hadas Biton, has recovered from the virus but her heart was affected by the disease. She is no longer on a ventilator.

She has woken up, Channel 12 quotes her father, Eliyahu, as saying.

“She is returning to herself, it moved me to tears,” he says. “I hugged and kissed her, it was pure joy.”

A 16-year-old boy at the same hospital is still in serious condition, but is stable.

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