CHANDIGARH: Famous Indian sprinter Milkha Singh”has been steady on oxygen aid” and he had been on Wednesday changed from their Intensive Care Unit of the hospital in which he’s being treated for COVID pneumonia, suggesting signs of progress in his or her conditions. But, his 82-year-old spouse Nirmal Kaur, a former India volleyball captain, was on Wednesday admitted to the identical hospital at Mohali after testing positive for COVID pneumonia. “Mr Milkha Singh has been steady on oxygen support. But he’s weak and we’re attempting to convince him to maximize his food consumption,” Fortis hospital at Mohali stated in an upgrade. “Now we have stepped down him in the ICU to a space that he’s sharing his wife Mrs Nirmal Milkha Singh who had been declared earlier in the afternoon using Covid pneumonia. “Both have been carefully monitored.” Kaur had previously returned negative if all Milkha’s relatives had been examined for the virus. Milkha was Monday admitted to the ICU after testing positive for the virus last Wednesday. He had been diagnosed with”COVID pneumonia” to precisely the identical day of his entrance. He’s supposed to have contracted the disease from home helps who’d tested positive for the virus. The mythical athlete is an four-time Asian Games gold-medallist and 1958 Commonwealth Games winner but his best performance was that the fourth place finish in the 400m closing of the 1960 Rome Olympics. His time in the Italian funds stayed the federal document for 38 years until Paramjeet Singh struck it in 1998. In addition, he represented India at the 1956 and 1964 Olympics and has been inoculated the Padma Shri in 1959.