A 15-year-old girl died after deteriorating ‘astonishingly quickly’ from a rare heart problem brought on by Covid, an inquest has heard.
Jorja Halliday, from Portsmouth, was described as an otherwise ‘healthy’ teenager before catching the virus.
She only suffered aches and a sore throat at first and was prescribed antibiotics, but after four days went back to her GP after her heart began beating fast and she struggled to keep food down.
The doctor found her heart was racing at 144 beats per minute and told her mum Tracey to rush her to hospital.
She was placed in a coma so she could be transferred to another facility for specialist care but died about five hours later, on the same day she was due to get her jab.