A 105-year-old woman in New Jersey who fought a deadly coronavirus attack attributed her good health to an unusual habit: raisins soaked in gin.
Lucia DeClerck, who lives in a nursing home, learned that she had been infected with the virus in January, the day after receiving a second dose of a vaccine designed to fight Covid-19, the New York Times reported.
The newspaper described how she had had few symptoms and in two weeks she was “back in the room, holding her rosary and wearing her sunglasses and knitting hat”.
The now recovered DeClerck attributed her new burst of robust health and long life in part to the nine gin-soaked raisins she eats each morning. “Fill a jar,” she explained to the Times. “Nine raisins a day after resting for nine days.”
Its history has attracted notable attention in America and in its state. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy called her for a congratulatory chat and told reporters, “What an uplifting conversation.”