111-year-old woman becomes one of world's oldest people to recover from coronavirus

Zúñiga has lived in the care home since 2014 after the death of her sister with whom she had lived.

A 111-year-old woman, from Chile, has become one of the oldest people in the world to beat the deadly coronavirus. Juana Zúñiga lives in a care home in capital Santiago and is the oldest resident at the facility to contract the contagion alongside 25 others.

Zúñiga's recovery is even more inspiring as she had already been suffering from respiratory issues when she caught Covid-19. However, her care home staff said she was not badly affected by the illness and 'didn't show symptoms', reported Daily Mail.

"She did not have any symptoms and very few bouts of fever, which was good," said the care home director María Paz Sordo. After Zúñiga tested positive for Covid-19, she was separated from the other residents and placed in an isolation ward for 28 days.

On May 10, Zúñiga was declared coronavirus free, making her the oldest person in Chile to beat the contagion.

Zúñiga has lived in the care home since 2014 after the death of her sister with whom she had lived. She never married or had children, according to reports.

In a similar hopeful story of recovery, a 113-year-old woman, the oldest person living in Spain, became the oldest reported survivor of the coronavirus earlier this month. Maria Branyas, a mother-of-three, survived Covid-19 whilst in the Santa Maria del Tura care home where she lives in the city of Olot, eastern Spain.