Fundraising centenarian in hospital with Covid19
LONDON: British centenarian Sir Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds for the health service in last year’s lockdown, has been admitted to hospital after testing positive for Covid19, his daughter said yesterday.
The World War 2 veteran caught the public’s imagination in April, just before his 100th birthday, when he was filmed doing laps with the help of a walking frame around his garden in the village of Marston Moretaine, north of London.
He hoped to raise £1000. Instead, he raised more than £30 million ($NZ57.2 million) for the National Health Service, broke two world records, was knighted by the Queen, scored a No 1 single, wrote an autobiography and helped set up a charity.
‘‘I wanted to update everybody that today . . . my father was admitted to hospital,’’ his daughter, Hannah IngramMoore, said on Twitter.
‘‘Over the last few weeks he was being treated for pneumonia and last week tested positive for Covid19.’’ — Reuters