医療従事者への支援で脚光浴びた１００歳退役軍人、コロナで入院　英

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】英国で新型コロナウイルスが流行する中、医療従事者らのために約3300万ポンド（約47億円）の寄付を集め、国民的英雄となったトム・ムーアさん（100）が先月31日、同ウイルスに感染して入院した。家族が明らかにした。（写真はトム・ムーアさん。英ロンドン北郊にある自宅付近にて）
　第２次世界大戦中にインドやミャンマーで従軍した退役軍人のムーアさんは、新型ウイルスと最前線で闘う医療従事者らのために寄付を募ろうと自宅の庭を歩行器で２５メートルを１００回歩くチャレンジに成功して多額の寄付金を集めた。その後、医療従事者への応援歌として歌ったカバー曲、「Ｙｏｕ’ｌｌ　Ｎｅｖｅｒ　Ｗａｌｋ　Ａｌｏｎｅ」では、国内の音楽シングルチャートで史上最高齢の１位を獲得した。
　ムーアさんが入院しているのは、イングランド中部ベッドフォードの病院。
　娘のハナ・イングラムムーアさんはツイッターで、「この数週間、父は肺炎の治療を受けていたが、先週、新型コロナウイルスの検査で陽性と判定された」と明らかにし、「きょう（１月３１日）まで私たちと自宅で過ごしていたが、さらなる呼吸補助が必要になった」と説明。「集中治療室（ＩＣＵ）ではなく、病棟で治療を受けている」と続けた。
　英ＢＢＣは、家族の代理人の話として、ムーアさんは肺炎のために新型コロナウイルスワクチンをまだ接種していなかったと報じている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/02/01-11:51）

Captain Tom Moore, 100, who won British hearts with a Covid-19 fund raising drive, was hospitalised on Sunday with the virus, his family said.
Moore raised millions of pounds for charity by walking around his garden and then became the oldest man to top the UK 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, Moore's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said on Twitter.
He was at home with us until today when he needed additional help with his breathing, she explained, adding that he is being treated in a ward although he is not in ICU, or an intensive care unit.
Moore 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.
Moore, who served in India during World War II, raised ??33 million (37 million euros, $45 million) for staff of the state-run National Health Service (NHS) battling the coronavirus outbreak.
Part was raised by circling his garden 100 times with his walker just before his 100th birthday on April 30, 2020, when 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 number one 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.
Moore, 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.