Singapore: Birthday joy for grandma, the longest-staying Covid-19 patient at NUH

Choy Wai Chee, who turns 58 on July 19, celebrating her birthday in the National University Hospital on Friday, with the staff and doctors who tended to her. With her are (from left) nurse manager Kong Yingying, Professor Lim Tow Keang and assistant professors Kollengode Ramanathan and Winn Maung Maung Aye. - Picture courtesy of the NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Singapore.

SINGAPORE, July 19 (The Straits Times/ANN): Grandmother Choy Wai Chee has more reason than most to celebrate her birthday today given she has been in a life-and-death fight against Covid-19 for the past four months.

At one point, doctors told her distressed family they had to be prepared for her demise.