Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh is "clinically stable with decreasing oxygen requirement" as he fights COVID pneumonia, the hospital where he is being treated said on Tuesday. Milkha was on Monday admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Fortis hospital in Mohali.

The 91-year-old tested positive for the virus last Wednesday. "Mr Milkha Singh is clinically stable with decreasing oxygen requirement," the hospital update read. He was diagnosed with "COVID pneumonia" on Monday after his admission. Earlier Milkha`s golfer son Jeev had said that the decision to hospitalise him was a precautionary measure. "Though his parameters seemed alright, we thought it is safer to have him admitted where he would be under supervision of senior doctors," Jeev had told PTI on Monday. Milkha is suspected to have contracted the infection from the house helps who had tested positive for the virus.