12 May 2021 11:58am
101 years of life is definitely worth celebrating, especially after living through some of the world’s most history altering events.
Efstathia Spyropoulou was born 10 June, 1920, at the time of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and shortly after the devastating effects of the Spanish flu.
100 years later she experienced the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. In a century and a year, she has experienced things that many people today wouldn’t be able to fathom.
Ms Spyropoulou grew up in Greece during difficult times, when poverty and misery prevailed along with the hardships of war.
At the end of World War II she married and started her own family, her first child was son Apostolos, born the year after her marriage.
Of the 25 new cases to 8pm last night:
Nine locally acquired cases are linked to the Avalon cluster. Eight of these cases were isolating for their full infectious period.
Six locally acquired cases, three adults and three children, all members of the same extended family, are linked to a cluster in Sydney’s Inner West whose source is still under investigation. One of these cases was first reported yesterday morning.
Three further locally acquired cases are under investigation. Two cases, members of the same household, are from the Wollongong area and one is from northern Sydney. One of the cases from Wollongong and the northern Sydney case were first reported yesterday morning.
Two new coronavirus cases have been discovered in Wollongong, south of Sydney, leading to an urgent alert for the region.
Thousands of the city s residents already raced to get a Covid test on Tuesday afternoon after one mystery case was revealed in the area that evening.
Along with the two Wollongong cases - who are from the same household - nine of Wednesday s 18 cases are linked to the Avalon cluster in Sydney Northern Beaches.
Another six are linked to a cluster in Sydney s Inner West, and one is under investigation from northern Sydney.
A health worker tests a woman for coronavirus at a testing centre at Figtree Community Centre in Wollongong on Wednesday (pictured)
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