WATCH | Surviving Covid-19: Former paratrooper speaks out, backs Ramaphosa's extended lockdown | NoSurrenderRSA
Hector Eliott is the managing director of Bearfish Strategic Services in Hout Bay. What began as a routine operation on his leg, ended with him in ICU, with his life in grave danger.
"I had an oxygen mask and nose-pipe - I was sh***ing, vomiting, sweating buckets. It was incredibly nasty," he told News24.Hasty virus lockdown lift could spark 'deadly resurgence': WHOThe engineer, former paratrooper, marathon runner and long-distance swimmer has now offered personal words of encouragement to fellow-South Africans, and people around the world.
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