In another good news of aged people’s recovery, a 113-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest person living in Spain, has beaten the coronavirus at a retirement home where several other residents died from the disease. The news was released by the residents.
Maria Branyas, who was born in the US, became infected in April at the Santa Maria del Tura care home in the eastern city of Olot, where she has lived for the past 20 years, and fought the respiratory illness off in isolation in her room.
“She survived the disease and is doing fine,” a spokeswoman for the residence told AFP, adding Branyas had only displayed mild symptoms.
“She feels good now, she took a test last week and the result was negative,” the spokeswoman said without giving further details.
Branyas, a mother of three, was isolated in her room for weeks, with only a single employee in protective gear allowed in to check on her, according to Catalan regional television TV3, which broadcast images of the centenarian.
When an employee asks her for the secret of her long life, Branyas replies simply that she is lucky to enjoy “good health”.
Several articles have been published in Spanish media in recent years about Branyas, considered to be the oldest person in the country.
She was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco where her father, who was from northern Spain, worked as a journalist.
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