Former rugby player Broadhurst Cona goes through his training moves as he visits the stadium where he began his career in Gugulethu township in Cape Town, South Africa, September 3, 2020. Picture taken September 3, 2020. To match Special Report HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/SAFRICA-RUGBY REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) - On Broadhurst Cona's fifth night in the COVID-19 ward of Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, the patient in the bed next to him was giving up.
The man gripped his own throat in panic as he choked, and he kept pulling off his oxygen mask. Cona pleaded with him to put it back on, but the man was beyond listening.
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