Maria Branyas, which resides in a retirement home affected by the coronavirus, has “overcome the disease and goes very well”. She had also known the flu of 1918.
A 113 years, Maria Branyas defeated the Covid-19. This woman, introduced herself as the dean of Spain, was cured of the disease Covid-19 in a retirement home in which a number of residents infected by the coronavirus have died. “She was 113 years old. She has overcome the disease and goes very well”, said a responsible communication facility.
Maria Branyas had contracted the disease in a mild form, last month, in the retirement home where she has lived for twenty years, in the city of Olot is located a hundred kilometres north of Barcelona (Catalonia, north-east).
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The symptoms have been slight: “In reality the only thing that has been detected, it is a urinary tract infection and a little fever with it, but then she passed a screening test (coronavirus) proved to be positive,” assured the head of communications. “Now, it feels good, and she has spent the last week, a test whose result was negative,” she said.
“It returns to itself”
The centenarian remained confined for several weeks in his room of Residence Santa Maria del Tura. A single employee was entering, wearing a protective suit, according to the regional television TV3, which showed images of the old lady. We hear Maria Branyas explain that “the people are very friendly, very attentive” with it in the establishment. When the employee asks him the secret of her longevity, she replied simply that she has the chance to enjoy”good health”.
His daughter, Rosa Moret, was not able to visit him during the confinement, but has concluded about his mother, on TV3: “Now she is well, she is in shape, with the urge to talk, to explain, to make her reflections, she returns to itself”. Journalists are not permitted to enter the retirement home, and the family no longer wishes to communicate with the press, according to the head of communication.
Survivor of the “Spanish flu”
Several articles have been published in recent years on this “super centenarian”, the mother of three children, grandmother and great-grandmother, born march 4, 1907 in the United States where her father worked as a journalist in San Francisco.
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According to the press, it contains the memory of the return journey of his family from America to Europe, aboard a transatlantic liner during the First world War (1914-18). It will also be known the time of the 1918 influenza pandemic dubbed the “Spanish flu”, as well as the civil war in his country between 1936 and 1939.
