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John Dunne

Courage and faith helped me to survive coronavirus, says 103-year-old

103-year-old Ada Zanusso poses with a nurse at the old people's home (Picture: AP)

A 103-year-old survivor of Covid-19 has said “courage and strength, faith” helped her defeat coronavirus.

Ada Zanusso, from Lessona in Italy, is thought to be the oldest person in Europe to have recovered.

She said she was “well” and reading the newspapers in her care home after a week in bed.

Her doctor, Carla Furno Marchese, said: “We thought she wasn’t going to make it because she was always drowsy ... One day she opened her eyes again.”

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