A Cape Town Covid-19 survivor has celebrated his victory over the deadly novel coronavirus – and publicly backed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s extended lockdown.

A Cape Town Covid-19 survivor has celebrated his victory over the deadly novel coronavirus – and publicly backed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s extended lockdown.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.
In the midst of his ordeal: “I realised why people quit chemotherapy.”
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But Eliott pulled through, and Friday was his first day out of quarantine.
The engineer, former parabat, 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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