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Maria Branyas, born in the USA In the USA, she became infected in April at the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the eastern city of Olot, and battled isolated respiratory illness in her room.
FILE: The care home recorded “several” virus-related deaths during the pandemic, the residence’s spokeswoman said. Image: 123rf
MADRID, Spain – A 113-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest person living in Spain, has beaten the coronavirus in a retirement home where other residents died of the disease, the residence said Tuesday.
Maria Branyas, who was born in the USA In the USA, she became infected in April at the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the eastern city of Olot, where she has lived for the past 20 years, and battled isolated respiratory disease in her room. .
“She survived the disease and is fine,” a residence spokeswoman told AFP, adding that Branyas had only shown mild symptoms.
“It feels good now, it was tested last week and the result was negative,” the spokeswoman said, without elaborating.
Branyas, a mother of three children, was isolated in her room for weeks, and only an employee with protective equipment could control her, according to Catalan regional television TV3, which broadcast images of the centenary.
In the video, Branyas can be heard calling the residence staff “very friendly, very attentive.”
When asked by an employee about the secret of his long life, Branyas simply replies that he is lucky to enjoy “good health”.
The care home recorded “several” virus-related deaths during the pandemic, the residence’s spokeswoman said.
Branyas’ daughter, Rosa Moret, told the station that her mother was “fit, eager to speak, explain, reflect, she had become herself.”
In recent years, several articles have been published in Spanish media about Branyas, considered the oldest person in the country.
He was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco, where his father, who was from northern Spain, worked as a journalist.
Branyas moved to Spain with his family in a boat during the First World War and also experienced the Spanish flu pandemic that devastated the world in 1918-19, as well as the civil war of 1936-39 in Spain.
Spain has been one of the countries most affected in the pandemic, with almost 27,000 deaths from COVID-19 confirmed so far, according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
The elderly are especially vulnerable and in Spain, as in other European countries, the coronavirus has claimed many victims among the elderly who live in nursing homes.
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