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Iona Young

Girl rushed to Edinburgh hospital and put in coma after 'side effect from Covid'

A schoolgirl was rushed to Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital after suffering a rare side effect from Covid.

Caroline Banbury has not moved from seven-year-old daughter Bella's bedside after she was flown from Aberdeen and placed in an induced coma.

The family say medics suspect she contracted Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS), an extremely rare side effect of coronavirus, which leaves children with a compromised immune system.

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