UK lockdown hero Captain Tom hospitalised with Covid
Captain Tom Moore, 100, who won British hearts by raising $57 million for the NHS, has been hospitalised with the virus.
Captain Tom Moore, 100, who won British hearts with a COVID-19 fundraising drive, has been hospitalised with the virus.
Sir Tom Moore raised millions of pounds for charity by walking around his garden and then became the oldest man to top the British music charts with a cover of You’ll Never Walk Alone.
“Over the last few weeks he was being treated for pneumonia and last week tested positive for COVID-19,” his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “He was at home with us until today when he needed additional help with his breathing.”
She added that “he is being treated in a ward although he is not in ICU”, or an intensive care unit.
Sir Tom was admitted to hospital in Bedford, central England.
The BBC quoted a spokesman for the family as saying that he had not yet been vaccinated for the virus owing to his pneumonia.
Sir Tom, who served in India during World War II, raised $57m for staff of the state-run National Health Service battling the coronavirus outbreak.
Part was raised by circling his garden 100 times with his walker just before his 100th birthday on April 30 last year, after he was given the honorary rank of colonel.
He then recorded You’ll Never Walk Alone, a US show tune best known as the anthem of the Liverpool Football Club, which shot to No 1 in the charts.
On Sunday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: “You’ve inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery.”
Sir Tom, affectionately known as “Captain Tom”, was knighted by the Queen in July and has become a role model in a nation hit by the worst COVID-19 death toll in Europe, now at more than 106,000.
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My thoughts are very much with @CaptainTomMoore and his family. You’ve inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery. https://t.co/Gm0S07umgd
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 31, 2021
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