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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dave Burke

Girl, 11, using feeding tube to eat a year after Covid left her too weak to move

A brave schoolgirl who has to be fed through a tube has voiced her anger at the Long Covid nightmare robbing her of a normal childhood.

Tillie Adams, 11, is one of an estimated 117,000 under-16s suffering with the long-term effects of the virus in the UK - with 20,000 ill for more than a year.

During her 12 month ordeal Tillie has spent weeks in hospital and is often too ill to go to school.

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