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Susie Beever & James Gamble

First UK child to die with Covid may have died after 'horrendous oversight by doctors'

The dislodging of a tube he was breathing through may have been the "tipping point" in the death of the first child to die from Covid in Britain, an inquest heard today.

"Kind and gentle soul" Ismail Mohamed was just 13 when he died after contracting the virus at the end of March 2020 - a week after the country was thrown into lockdown.

The youngster from Brixton, south London, was on a ventilator and had a breathing tube "positioned too high in his throat" when he died, the court heard.

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