In Spain, a woman at the age of 113, who is described as the oldest woman in the country, has beaten the deadly coronavirus, reports said on Tuesday quoting the Spanish authorities. Maria Branyas was born in Mexico in 1907 but she moved to San Francisco in the United States two years later and arrived in the Catalan province of Girona during World War 1 with her Spanish journalist father. Branyas as been living in a care home in the Catalan city of Olot for the past 20 years. She was diagnosed with COVID-19 after the country went into lockdown in March, but after weeks in isolation, she recovered, having suffered only mild symptoms. "Now that she is well, she is wonderful, she wants to speak, to explain, to make her reflections, it is her again," her daughter wrote on Twitter. It means Branyas has lived through the flu pandemic of 1918-19, the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and the coronavirus. Shehas raised three children — one of whom recently turned 86 — has 11 grandchildren — the oldest of whom is 60 — and 13 great-grandchildren, BBC reported.
