Covid baby Peyton is top of the class now

Parents' joy as the girl they feared wouldn't make it is ready to learn

- BY ISLA STORIE

THE youngest Scot to survive after catching Covid as a newborn is about to start school.

Peyton Maguire, five, tested positive for coronavirus at just three weeks old in April 2020, after she was born eight weeks prematurely on March 26.

Born at their start of the global pandemic, she is believed to be the youngest child with the virus in the country.

Peyton, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, lived thanks to care received at University Hospital Wishaw and has no long-term health conditions. She will now begin school in her home town on Thursday.