A four-year-old boy has beaten coronavirus while also fighting cancer with gruelling chemotherapy sessions. Archie Wilks was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, in January 2019 and had been undergoing chemotherapy and immunotherapy before he was tested for coronavirus when he began showing symtoms.
His anxious parents, Simon and Harriet, were devastated when his results came back positive. The couple, from Saffron Walden, Essex, had done all they can to protect their sick son and weeks ago had taken Archie's twin brother Henry out of school so the family could self-isolate.
Dad Simon said: "We only had a community nurse visit a couple of times and some trips to the day unit where we kept away from whoever we possibly could