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Spaniard is oldest in world No masks on public transport
FOLLOWING the passing of the world’s oldest person that title now belongs to Spaniard Maria Branyas, who is currently 115.
According to a news source on Wednesday, January 18 the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) confirmed the sad passing of Sister André (Lucile Randon) on Tuesday January 17 at the age of 118.
Branyas, who is a resident of Santa Maria del Tura in Olot, was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco after her Catalan family moved there in 1906.
At the age of seven, they returned to Catalonia where she lived through two world wars and the Spanish civil war.
Although she is confined to a wheelchair Branyas is strong, having overcome Covid19 in 2021.
She even has a Twitter account under the name of Super Àvia Catalana (@MariaBranyas112) and where a sentence states: ‘Soc vella, molt vella, però no idiota’ (I’m old, very old, but not idiot).
A daughter of a journalist from Pamplona who worked for the American magazine Mercurio, she married Joan Moret a Llagostera doctor in 1931.
A FINAL decision has yet to be taken but it seems masks will no longer being required on public transport in Spain from February.
Local experts are said to have endorsed the removal of face masks on buses, trains and planes but not in health centres. It is understood the delay in making a decision is down to the opening up of
