A dementia sufferer who survived a Nazi assassination attempt, a plane crash and breast cancer, has successfully beaten coronavirus at the age of 99.
Joy Andrew miraculously recovered from Covid-19 at Minster Grange care home in York, North Yorks, where more than 30 residents are thought to have died.
Daughter Michele Andrew said staff called her on May 30 to say her mum “was at the end of life” with “fluctuating” oxygen levels and wasn't eating or drinking – before she suddenly started to recover.
But Joy is no stranger to close calls, having faced death and lived to tell about it on numerous occasions over the years. "My mother survived an assassination attempt in post war Germany by her chauffeur, later identified as a Nazi, she