Europe’s oldest person has survived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday.
Lucile Randon, a French nun who took the name of Sister Andre in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus on 16 January but did not develop any symptoms.
She told local media she “didn’t even realise I had it”.
Sister Andre, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, isolated separately from other residents in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France.
However, she is now considered fully recovered and is now looking forward to celebrating her birthday on Thursday.
Sister Andre was born on 11 February 1904. As well as being Europe’s oldest person, she is also the second-oldest living person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group’s World Supercentenarian Rankings List.
