13 May,2021 09:19 AM IST | Bengaluru | IANS
Prakash Padukone. Pic/midday archives
Former All England champion Prakash Padukone is making good recovery after having been discharged from a Bengaluru hospital where he was c for a week due to Covid.
Padukone, who was hospitalised on May 1 as a precautionary measure as his fever was not subsiding, was discharged on Saturday, according to a report.
Padukone's family members too had returned Covid-positive but recovered in home isolation.
The 65-year-old former badminton player was the first Indian to clinch the All England title in 1980 and again reached the final the following year.
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He was also the first Indian to win a medal at the World Championships, a bronze in Copenhagen in 1983.
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