Boy, 9, who thought long Covid was making him poorly given awful diagnosis

A nine-year-old boy who thought he had long Covid has been given a shock cancer diagnosis.

Freddie Woollard started feeling poorly in November 2021 after contracting coronavirus. His symptoms persisted and his family thought he might have been suffering from long Covid, the Liverpool Echo reports.

But in January, they received the 'bombshell' news that he had Wilms tumour. This is a type of kidney cancer that only affects around 85 children in the UK each year.