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Girl, 5, in intensive care with Kawasaki disease weeks after beating coronavirus

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A young girl is fighting for her life after contracting Kawasaki disease after recovering from coronavirus just five weeks ago.

Five-year-old Scarlett Roberts has been given just a 20% chance of survival after being hospitalised with a Kawasaki inflammatory response – a reaction doctors fear may be linked to COVID-19 in children.

Scarlett’s father Piers says his daughter was “fit and well” just six weeks ago before first being struck down with a mild case of coronavirus – and he believes she contracted the virus while in school before lockdown.

Medical experts have suspected a link between coronavirus and Kawasaki disease in children – with symptoms of the inflammatory disease including a rash, reddening of inside of lips, tongue and

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