Across the world, health workers are applauding older individuals who've recovered from the novel coronavirus. The oldest person to have survived after becoming infected with the novel coronavirus may be 113-year-old Maria Branyas.
According to Newsweek, Branyas had Spanish flu as a child, having lived through that epidemic, and survived after contracting the novel coronavirus.
Born in San Francisco in 1907, Branyas is the mother of three children and now has eleven grandchildren, according to a translation of an article from the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.
According to the article translation, her family had last visited her in person on March 4 with all following communication having taken place by phone, and the family is looking