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Sister André, World’s oldest known person dies at 118

Kathmandu, 21 January: Sister André, a French nun and the world’s oldest known person, who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived Covid-19, died on Tuesday in France. She was 118.

A spokesman for a nursing home in the southern city of Toulon, where Sister André was residing, confirmed the death in an interview with French news media. Sister André made headlines in recent years for being the world’s oldest known survivor of Covid, according to Guinness World Records. (AFP)

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