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