02/09/2021 12:35
Clarín.com
International
Updated 02/09/2021 12:35 PM
Pandemic, isolation and crisis are the harsh consequences that Covid-19 brought, the virus that put the world on pause in 2020 and, it seems, will also do so for much of 2021.
However, as in the Yin and Yang of life, in everything bad the good is always present.
It is that if the coronavirus brought us something positive, it is a good number of stories with a happy ending, of recovery, resilience and hope.
And this is one of those cases.
French nun Lucile Randon, known as
Sister André
and considered
the longest living person in Europe
, recovered from the coronavirus just two days after her
117th birthday
, local media reported.
Sister André assured that she had almost no symptoms.
Photo: Social Networks
Randon - who was born in the town of Alés, in the south of the country, on February 11, 1904 - tested positive for coronavirus on January 16.
Since then, she has been placed in strict quarantine in the room she occupies in the Sainte Catherine Labouré nursing home, located in Toulon, also in the south of France.
"I did not even realize that I was infected," the centenary told the local newspaper Var Matin.
A few weeks later, the nun is already recovered.
A spokesperson for the residence explained to the same newspaper that Sister André was not afraid of the virus, although she did express concern for the health of the other residents.
"She was also concerned if her bedtime or eating times were going to change because she was infected," the spokesperson added.
Supercentennial, the nun is considered the second oldest verified living person in the world, just behind the Japanese Kane Tanaka, born on January 2, 1903.
With information from EFE.
