RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) 鈥 Pel茅 is doing better after having been hospitalized to treat a respiratory infection aggravated by COVID-19, doctors at the Albert Einstein hospital said Monday.
Pel茅 has been and doctors said they still don't know when he will be discharged.
He is "conscious and has stable vital signs," a statement from the hospital said.
Pel茅, the only player to win three World Cups, is also undergoing chemotherapy.
His daughter Kely Nascimento, who lives in the U.S., posted on social media Monday several photos from her father鈥檚 hospital. In one of them she is holding her father's hand, with the message 鈥淚 arrived.鈥 Another shows her working remotely from hospital.
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