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A French nun who is Europe’s old­est per­son has sur­vived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday.

Lucile Ran­don, who took the name of Sis­ter Andre in 1944, test­ed pos­i­tive for coro­n­avirus on 16 Jan­u­ary but did­n’t devel­op any symptoms.

She told local media she “did­n’t even real­ize I had it”.

She iso­lat­ed sep­a­rate­ly from oth­er res­i­dents in her retire­ment home in Toulon, south­ern France, but is now con­sid­ered ful­ly recovered.

Sis­ter Andre, who is blind and uses a wheel­chair, is now look­ing for­ward to cel­e­brat­ing her birth­day on Thurs­day — although she is going to mark the occa­sion with a small­er group of res­i­dents than usual.