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Blind Scot's 'isolating' Covid battle as pals unable to join bubble and guide him in lockdown

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A blind Scot has revealed his struggle as he fought off deadly Covid-19 and was unable to rely on his friends to help guide him during lockdowns.Amar Latif was struck down with coronavirus just as the country went into lockdown, in late March 2020.

The TV presenter and entrepreneur, who suffers from progressive vision loss condition retinitis pigmentosa, told how he was terrified after he was rushed to hospital and placed in a Covid ward.

He said: "At first I thought I'd given myself food poisoning from a tuna steak."But my weakness and loss of taste got worse, so did my breathlessness."I was on the phone to my cousin, Sophia, a few days into feeling unwell, she was concerned so phoned an ambulance."The 46-year-old Glaswegian, who lives in

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