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Spanish woman who 'died' of Covid returns to care home

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An 85-year-old woman believed by her family to have died from the coronavirus surprised her relatives by returning to her care home nine days after they were told she had been buried, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

After a mix-up over names, the family of Rogelia Blanco were informed that the pensioner died of Covid-19 on 13 January and her funeral was the next day, the La Voz de Galicia newspaper said.

Due to coronavirus protocols, they were unable to attend. So when she arrived fit and well back at the care home in Xove, northern Spain, on Saturday where her husband Ramón Blanco also lived, he was overwhelmed, the paper said. "I could not believe it.

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