Covid survivor’s 117th birthday

A FRENCH nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person, and who recently survived a bout of Covid-19, was celebrating her 117th birthday yesterday.

Plans for the day at the nun’s care home in the French city of Toulon included champagne and red wine; a feast with her favourite dessert, baked Alaska; a Mass in her honour; and other treats to toast Sister Andre’s exceptional longevity through two world wars and her recent brush with coronavirus.