A mother has revealed how she thought her gravely-ill teenage son would die of coronavirus until doctors prescribed him with experimental Ebola drug remdesivir.
Dianne Tayel, from Ipswich, phoned for an ambulance when her sons Jacob, 14, and Isaac, 11, showed symptoms of the deadly virus.
Both were put into intensive care within 24 hours of one another as regular treatment failed to work and their condition rapidly deteriorated.
Jacob had to be transferred from Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge to Great Ormond Street as he became increasingly ill. The teenager made a rapid turnaround after medics gave him remdesivir, a generic anti-viral drug that has previously been used to treat patients who have contracted Ebola virus.