A 108-year-old woman, Fatima Negrini, has recovered from COVID-19. She joins the ranks of the very few centenarians who have survived the novel disease.
“God forgot about me,” Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera quoted Negrini as saying in its Saturday edition.
Negrini, who hails from northern Italy, turned 108 on Wednesday, June 3.
A picture of the wheelchair-bound Negrini in front of a chocolate and cream cake, flanked by a carer with a giant heart-shaped birthday card, was also published by the paper.
Negrini has been a resident of the Anni Azzurri San Faustino nursing home in Milan, according to a spokesman for the facility.
Born in Sustinente, Lombardy, Italy, on 3 June 1912, Fatima Negrini, who was wheelchair-bound, contracted COVID-19 in April 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. However, she successfully recovered and tested negative for the virus in late May, a few days before her 108th birthday, making her one of the oldest known survivors of the disease.
She caught the novel coronavirus in April and tested negative in mid-May and was “always” an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient, he added.
According to Corriere, Negrini has three sons aged 89, 88, and 78, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Italy is one of the countries worst hit by the novel coronavirus, and the impact of the pandemic has been particularly hard on nursing homes in Milan’s Lombardy region.
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