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Detailed explanation-1: -Chiyo Miyako, who was known to her family members as “the goddess, ” died Sunday, said officials in Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. Guinness World Records has confirmed that she was the world’s oldest person.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sister André became the oldest living person last year when the previous oldest person, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died at 119 years old in April 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -The U.S.-based Gerontology Research Group says that another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, is now the world’s oldest person in its records. Miyako lives south of Tokyo in Kanagawa prefecture, and is due to turn 117 in 10 days.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sister André, World’s Oldest Known Person, Is Dead at 118. A French nun, she lived through two world wars and the 1918 flu pandemic and, more than a century later, survived Covid-19. She enjoyed a bit of wine and chocolate daily.