[France24] Europe's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, has survived COVID-19 and will celebrate her 117th birthday this week, her caregivers said.Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, on Jan. 16. She was isolated from other residents, but displayed no symptoms.
Asked if she was scared to have COVID, Sister Andre told France's BFM television, "No, I wasn't scared because I wasn't scared to die... I'm happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else — join my big brother and my grandfather and my grandmother."
David Tavella, spokesman for the Sainte Catherine Labouré retirement home, said she was doing well.
"We consider her to be cured. She is very calm and she is looking forward to celebrating her 117th birthday on Thursday."