i-Witness Special: Ako si Patient 2828

Physically active and in perfect health, GMA journalist and safety officer Howie Severino thought he'd be the last person to contract the coronavirus. He was wrong. After a fever of seven days, he discovered he had pneumonia and days later he tested positive for COVID-19. He became Patient 2828. More than 300 of those patients never made it.

In the hospital, Howie met a nurse who was interested in documentary. Teaching him how to shoot, Howie urged him to document his life as a frontliner. Howie the patient also became a subject of his documentation.

"Ako si Patient 2828" is the product of this collaboration, the inside story of the pandemic's war front inside isolation in a COVID hospital.

It shows the tests done on Patient 2828, describes the agony of the unknown and then the joy of finally being able to go home.

Howie talks to another COVID survivor, Iza Calzado, the two of them belonging to an exclusive club of survivors who now must decide how best to help other patients and educate the public about this terrifying disease.