A photo taken earlier this year shows Madam Yap Lay Hong, Singapore's oldest survivor of Covid-19. - PHOTO: COURTESY OF ALAN HO via The Straits Times/ANN
SINGAPORE, Sept 21 (The Straits Times/ANN): Yap Lay Hong, who last year made world headlines as one of oldest coronavirus(Covid-19) survivors anywhere, has died at the age of 103, her Singapore nursing home said on Monday (Sept 20).
"It is with mixed emotions to share that someone who inspired us all has passed on," the Lee Ah Moi Old Age Home said, announcing that the centenarian died at hospital on Sunday morning after an intestinal blockage.
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