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Jon Montes and Chesterzel Gonzales, COVID-19 survivors
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 7) – The Philippines on Friday tallied over a million recoveries from COVID-19 more than a year since the local outbreak began. While majority of patients only suffer mild symptoms, there are those who barely survive.
Jon Montes caught COVID-19 in March and spent a month in hospital. At one point, his doctors thought he wouldn t make it after passing out for an entire day, thinking he would go into cardiac arrest any second. I really thought I was going to die that night, he told CNN Philippines, recounting he remembers feeling tired from a hemoperfusion session – a process that cleans the blood of toxins similar to dialysis – and woke up unable to feel his hands and limbs.