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A five-year-old boy with a rare health condition is fighting for his life after contracting Covid.
Little Rupert Moore tested positive for Covid after he initially began experiencing symptoms on November 21.
Rupert was taken straight to Margate's QEQM Hospital so they could monitor his symptoms before being rushed to intensive care at Evelina Children's Hospital in London on Wednesday 24.
Rupert, from Herne Bay, Kent - who also has a rare condition known as Vici syndrome, initially began displaying symptoms of fatigue before deteriorating.
His condition means he is unable to talk, is registered blind, is unable to eat, suffers from epilepsy, and has to have round the clock care.
Little Rupert Moore, 5, tested positive for Covid after he initially began experiencing symptoms on November 21. Pictured in intensive care at Evelina Children's Hospital in London
Mum Camilla Crick, 28, was told the five-year-old was unlikely to make it over the next 48 hours last week but insists Rupert is fighting through the illness.
Camilla, a stay at home mum, explained: 'On the Sunday, my partner got a message from work saying four people had tested positive for Covid and that same day, I had an email from my
