Earlier when the 108-year-old defected the virus last year, she said: God forgot about me
After surviving coronavirus infection months ago, a 108-year-old Italian woman has received coronavirus vaccine on Monday, thereby becoming one of the oldest people in the world to get inoculated.
Fatima Negrini, who will turn 109 on June 3, received the jab along with other residents of the Anni Azzurri San Faustino care home in Milan, a spokesman told news agency AFP.
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Earlier when the 108-year-old defected the virus last year, she said: God forgot about me as quoted by the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
On Monday, Sami Modiano, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor from Rome, also received Covid-19 vaccine according to regional president and leader of the centre-left Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti.
Italy is set to allow museums and archaeological sites to reopen in regions classified as yellow zones under its covid-19 restrictions, from 16 January.
| UPDATED: 19:36, Wed, Jan 13, 2021
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