British World War II veteran Tom Moore is hardly taking things easy in the lead up to his 100th birthday.
Mr Moore, 99, is walking 10 laps of his garden every day in an inspiring effort to raise money for the workers propping up his country’s straining health system during the coronavirus pandemic.
He is hoping to walk a combined 100 laps of the garden – a 25-metre patch of grass and paving in Bedfordshire in England's East – before he turns 100 on April 30.
So far he has raised almost $8 million for the National Health Service, which he said had given him extraordinary treatment in the past.
“The more it comes in the better, because when I was in hospital with my hip and then with my head, the service I got was absolutely unbelievable," he said.
“Fortune favours the brave, and that's what they are, they're brave.”
Mr Moore, from Yorkshire, served in Asia during the Second World War.
The UK has one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world, with the figure sitting at over 12,000.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care earlier in April after he was infected with COVID-19. He is now in recovery.
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