Meet World's Oldest Woman, Who Survived World Wars, Spanish Flu and COVID-19 Pandemic

We all know how Guinness World Records always manages to dig up the most mind-boggling achievements, incidents, or talents. Well, they have done it again. This time Guinness World Records took to Instagram to wish the world’s oldest living woman on her 117th birthday. Maria Branyas Morera celebrated her 117th birthday and with this, she added her name to the Guinness World Records (GWR) list. Born in 1907, she is now the world’s oldest living person who has survived World War I, World War II, the Spanish Flu pandemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sharing the birthday wish for Maria Branyas Morera on Instagram, Guinness World Records wrote, “Happy birthday to Maria Branyas Morera who celebrates her 117th birthday today. She was verified as the world’s oldest person back in January 2023. Maria was born on 4 March 1907 in San Francisco, USA, but returned to Spain with her family when she was eight to settle in Catalonia. She’s lived in the region ever since and has resided in the same nursing home for the past 23 years.” In the comments section of the post, Guinness World Records stated that she became the oldest person on Earth in January 2023, following the death of 118-year-old Lucile Randon (France).

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Check Guinness World Records’ birthday post for the world’s oldest woman.

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Eva Carrera Boix, the director of Maria’s nursing home told GWR, “She is very grateful for all the congratulations received and the interest that so many people have shown in her state of health.” Maria celebrated her birthday on March 4. According to Guinness World Records, “Maria lived through the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 as well as the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), which she said she has “very bad memories” of.” Guinness World Records added, “Over a century after the 1918 pandemic, Maria also survived COVID-19 – she contracted the virus a few weeks after turning 113 in 2020 but made a full recovery within days, becoming the world’s oldest COVID-19 survivor.”

The post was shared 18 hours ago on Instagram and since then it has collected around 1.9 lakh likes and the numbers are only increasing. The post has collected tons of comments from netizens. “She survived two world wars,” wrote an Instagram user. “She lived through two world wars and two pandemics, she has a better idea of how the world is than any of us,” commented a second. “May God bless her and give her more energy and health,” added a third.