Covid-19 patient receives world’s first lung transplant from living donors

The virus that causes Covid-19 (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

Doctors in Japan say they have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage from Covid-19.

The recipient, identified only as a woman from Japan’s western region of Kansai, is recovering after the nearly 11-hour operation, Kyoto University Hospital said. It said her husband and son, who donated parts of their lungs, are also in stable conditions.