Myrtle Hooper was seven when the last pandemic struck Australia. It didn’t stop her driving a horse and gig to school
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Myrtle Hooper was born the year the Titanic sank. She has lived through two world wars and recalls her parents talking in worried tones about the Spanish flu. Now, at the age of 107, she is facing another global crisis from behind the closed doors of a Swan Hill nursing home.
“It is very like we are in jail,” Hooper says. “We are not allowed to have anyone here and nobody is allowed to go out.” She adds: “But we are well looked after.”
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