CITIZEN News: Oldest woman in Spain recovers from coronavirus at age 113

Headline: Oldest woman in Spain recovers from coronavirus at age 113

A woman believed to be the oldest in Spain has recovers from the coronavirus, officials have confirmed.                             

Maria Branyas was diagnosed with covid 19 after the country was lockdown in March.                  

But after weeks in isolation, Mrs. Branyas, recovered having suffered only mild symptoms.           

It means the woman has lived through the flu pandemic of 1918-19, 1936-39 Spanish Civil war and the coronavirus.                

 " Now that she is well, she is wonderful, she wants to speak, to explain, to make her reflections, it is her again",* her daughter tweeted.                                 

Born in Mexico in 1907,she moved north to San Francisco two years later and arrived in the Catalan province of Girona during World War l with her Spanish Journalist father. She raised three children, one of whom recently turned 86- has 11 grandchildren- the oldest of whom is 60 - and 13 great- grandchildren.                                       

She has lived for two decades at a care home in the city of Olot.           

Speaking to La Vaguardia last year, she said: " I have done nothing but live".                           

Source: BBC