An Italian long-liver contracted COVID-19 three times. The Corriere della Sera newspaper reports.
100-year-old Maria Orsingher, who lives in a nursing home in the Italian city of Ardenno, Lombardy region, first contracted the new coronavirus in February. She easily survived the illness and recovered without hospitalization.
In the summer, Orsinger celebrated her 101st birthday, and in September she again developed symptoms of COVID-19. She went to the hospital and was safely discharged 18 days later. At the end of October, when all residents of the nursing home were tested, the woman was again infected with the coronavirus. This time the disease was asymptomatic.
The third infection puzzled specialists. They do not exclude that the negative September test, which confirmed the woman’s recovery, showed an erroneous result. According to another version, the new testing revealed the remains of the virus that remained in the body after the second infection.
Maria Orsinger was born on July 21, 1919 in the village of Gaggio in Lombardy. Immediately after birth, she experienced the “Spanish flu” – a deadly flu pandemic, which in 1918-1919 claimed the lives of tens of millions of people. During World War II, a woman married a widower and raised eight children, including two of her husband’s children from a previous marriage.
Earlier, the oldest living American woman celebrated 116th birthday in surrounded by several generations of her family and revealed the secret of her longevity. She has 12 children, 68 grandchildren, 125 great-grandchildren and 120 great-great-grandchildren. She is still able to feed and move independently.