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Daniel Keane

Breathing tube error may have contributed to death of first child Covid victim, inquest told

A breathing tube in the wrong position could have contributed to the death of a 13-year-old boy who became the UK's first known child victim of Covid-19, an inquest has been told.

Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, died of acute respiratory distress syndrome, caused by Covid-19 pneumonia, in the early hours of March 30, 2020.

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