Woman Aged 107 Becomes World’s Oldest Person to Survive Coronavirus
Recovering from the Coronavirus, a 107-year-old Dutch woman has possibly become the oldest survivor of the pandemic globally.
Cornelia Ras fell ill on March 17, the day after celebrating her 107th birthday. Reportedly, she had attended a church service with other nursing home residents on Goeree-Overflakkee, an island in the southwest of the Netherlands.
She and 40 others from the service were subsequently diagnosed with the deadly Coronavirus.
Out of the 40, twelve have tragically died, but Ras received the news from her doctors on Monday that she had conquered the infection.
"We did not expect her to survive this," stated her niece Maaike de Groot to the newspaper.
"She takes no medicines, s...