Captain Moore The feat of the 99-year-old British war veteran who has raised millions of euros for Health
Centennial British captain Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds for the health service by
circling his garden during the close of last year in the United Kingdom
, has been hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus, his daughter confirmed this Sunday.
The World War II veteran captivated the hearts of the British last April, during the first wave of the pandemic, circling his home garden
clutching his walker and raising more than 30 million
pounds (about 34 million euros ) for the National Health Service of Great Britain.
When Moore began his highly personal challenge on April 8, his goal to get as many laps with his walker as there were years he would meet by the end of the month.
He intended to raise £ 1,000 and donate it to the NHS Charities Together, the charitable organization that accepts donations for the National Health System (NHS).
It more than served its purpose.
Captain Moore, in an April 2020 photo.
"I was stationed in India and Sumatra and was a tank instructor during World War II," Moore then recalled to the BBC.
"
Our army now is the doctors and the nurses
, and they are doing a wonderful job."
He broke two
Guinness
World
Records and was knighted
by Queen Elizabeth, but he has not rested on his laurels.
He wrote an autobiography and is helping to start a charity.
"I wanted to inform everyone that today my father
was admitted to the hospital,
" his daughter, Hannah, said on Twitter.
"For the last few weeks he has been receiving treatment for pneumonia and last week he tested positive for COVID-19. He was at home with us until today, when he needed additional help with his breathing. He is being treated in a ward, not in the ICU (unit intensive care), "he said.
Hannah added that Moore has received
"remarkable" medical care
in recent weeks.
That the family knew that the staff at Bedford Hospital in the English city of Bedford would do everything possible to make him feel comfortable and "hopefully he would return home as soon as possible."
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