A 113-year-old woman, who’s believed to be the oldest woman in Spain, has officially recovered from the coronavirus. Maria Branyas was first diagnosed with the virus after Spain went into lockdown in March, the BBC reports, and recovered after weeks in isolation.
She only suffered mild symptoms. Branyas can now add coronavirus to her roster of things she’s survived, along with the Spanish flu pandemic and the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, after arriving in the country from the U.S.
by boat with her family during the First World War. Branyas was born in San Francisco in 1907, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) says, to a journalist father from northern Spain.