A Scots mum has been left using a wheelchair and crutches after a battle with Long Covid. Aberdeen woman Kate Stott, 36, was running a successful tech company alongside life as a mum-of-three when she caught the virus in March 2020.
The after effects of the disease have gradually impacted every aspect of her daily life and now she has had to shut down her firm BeautyBooker, after suffering severe muscle weakness and fatigue which forces her to sleep for hours every day.
Kate, who won the Scottish Business woman of the Year award in 2019, told the Record: "I was at work one day just before lockdown when I developed swollen glands and lost my sense of taste and smell. But what started out as just a sore throat has completely transformed my world.