A 116 year old French nun who is Europe’s oldest living person has survived COVID after testing positive.
French nun Sister Andrée had tested positive for COVID in her retirement home in Toulon, but had remained symptom-free. Most of the 88 residents at the home contracted the virus, 10 of whom died.
Sister Andrée, who is blind and in a wheelchair, said that her main complaint was the solitude necessitated by being confined to her room.
“I didn’t even realise I had it,” she told Var-Matin newspaper:
David Tavella, a spokesperson for the nursing home, told the newspaper that she had no fear of the virus.
“She didn’t ask me about her health but about her routine. She wanted to know for example if the meal and bed times were going to change. She showed no fear of the illness, in fact she was more worried about the other residents,” Mr Tavella said.
When asked by France’s BFM Television if she had been scared of having COVID, she responded: “No, I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die … I’m happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else – join my big brother and my grandfather and my grandmother.”
In addition to being Europest oldest living person, she is also the world’s second oldest living person. The oldest living person in the world is Kane Tanaka in Japan, who turned 118 on January 2. Having lived through the First World War as a child, Sister Andrée will turn 117 on Thursday.
Source: The Guardian
