Durban resident Anton Harman lived a good, normal life before he succumbed to Covid-19 after nearly a month on a ventilator in hospital.
He was a father, a husband and an active South African Revenue Service employee who travelled the country, plying his trade as an operational specialist trainer.
“He decided to go to hospital to see the doctor. He only had a fever, but we thought it best to be safe. The doctor said he had an upper respiratory infection and gave him medication for symptom relief.”“By Tuesday 14 April, we got his results and he had tested positive,” his daughter said. By Wednesday 22 April, she said her father took a turn for the worse, so he decided to visit the hospital again.
By 15 May, his saturation again dropped, and Thea’s mother was called back to the hospital to see her father. “I could not tell it was him. He looked so different. I don’t think he was my father at all at that point. It just felt so surreal, like this is not happening.”“In 2017, we both decided to do our law degrees together. We planned to do it over the course of five years. We had just completed 2.5 years of studying together. We were study partners and were there for each other. He was always there for us and now he is not coming back.
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