Speaking ahead of the fifth anniversary marking the pandemic, Alex Jones, mum-of-three, from Birmingham, revealed how her nan was like a cat with nine lives.
“The fact that she was so active played a part in her surviving COVID and bouncing back from all the things that had happened to her,” she recalled.
“She was a bit like a cat, lots of lives – she just kept on bouncing back.”
Connie was discharged from City Hospital, Birmingham, in April 2020 to a round of applause from staff. The moment was captured on video and viewed across the world as she became the oldest known survivor of the virus.
She was transferred to a nearby care home, where she continued to recover and was well enough to return home three months later.
