Dwight Yorke is criticised for being in Dubai as son Harvey was rushed to hospital

Dwight Yorke has been criticised by his followers after he shared a video in Dubai, where he is spending lockdown, as his son Harvey Price was rushed to hospital.

The footballer, 49, took to Instagram to share a video that saw him riding an electric scooter around the city, shortly before his estranged son was taken to hospital following a reaction to the first of his Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs he had on Friday.

The 18-year-old, who he shares with ex Katie Price, was taken to hospital last week with a high temperature, but he is now back home and well.

In the video, titled Life In Dubai, Dwight tested out the scooter on the pavement alongside a busy road before going around a hotel car park.

He wore a face mask as he did so, making sure to keep himself protected amid the coronavirus crisis during the outing.

However, some of his fans were frustrated with his video so they criticised him and called him a ‘disgrace’ for not being there for his son.

One person simply wrote: ‘A message would go a long way.’

While another hit out: ‘Skirting your way through life happily avoiding your parental responsibilities like the scum you are.’

Another follower called him a ‘disgrace of a man’, and adding to that one person claimed he had ‘no shame or pride’.

Criticising Dwight, one person claimed: ‘That suits your mentality – such a boy.’ 

Katie revealed on Sunday that Harvey is home and well, after he was rushed to hospital following a bad reaction to the vaccine. 

The mother-of-five revealed that once she got her eldest son home from the hospital, he was back ‘on form’, requesting chicken Kiev and chips at 4am.

‘Harvey is all good,’ she told her army of followers. ‘Thank you for all your kind messages and best wishes for Harvey he is home, safe and well.’

She then went on to discuss Harvey’s apparent reaction to the vaccine, saying: ‘So because of Harvey’s complex needs and the complex medication that he’s on he had his COVID [vaccine], the Oxford one, and had just as reaction. 

‘The reaction was a really, really high temperature, 39.9 [degrees]. And obviously with Harvey, I have to keep a really keen eye and I couldn’t get his temperature down.

‘So I phoned Great Ormond Street and they told me to go to the nearest A&E that’s what we did. Did all your bloods, did an X-ray, blood, ECG, everything. 

‘Everything was fine, said it was just a reaction from COVID but today, he’s absolutely on form, aren’t you?

‘And the doctors and nurses were fantastic so I can’t wait to still have my COVID injection and I still recommend everyone else have it and Harvey is safe and well.’

Elsewhere in the video, Katie went on to reveal that Harvey was so much back to his old self that he had a decadent culinary request in the early hours of Sunday.

After prompting him to share that he was in hospital the night before, she said: ‘What did you ask for at four o’clock this morning? Chicken Kiev and chips!’

Katie also encouraged others to still go ahead with getting the Covid vaccine, saying that despite Harvey’s reaction it’s still so important for high risk people to have it. 

She told The Sun: ‘I don’t want anyone worrying about him as he’s fine now at home eating carrot cake. Despite Harvey’s reaction, he is one of a kind, the Covid jab is so important especially for those in high risk categories.

‘I am so much happier in the knowledge Harvey is safer now he has had his.’ 

While her rep added: ‘Katie would like the medical authorities to consider those with complex and rare conditions should be vaccinated under strict medical supervision and monitored for 24hrs as their immune systems can react differently.’

Harvey also sweetly thanked his mum’s followers for all their well wishes after the scary dash to hospital in a video shared on Instagram on Sunday evening.

On Friday, Harvey, who is on the autism spectrum and was born with disabilities including partial blindness, ADHD and Prader-Willi syndrome, received his first COVID vaccine, having been declared clinically extremely vulnerable.

Katie previously revealed she’d like to reintroduce her eldest son Harvey to his father, and claimed it has been 13 years since the pair last saw each other.

Speaking to her hairdresser on her YouTube channel in October 2019, the model said she would love to turn up at the footballer’s house with Harvey.

The mother-of-five said she would ring her ex’s doorbell and ‘be there with Harvey, just for him to see Harvey. That is what I would like to do and I will do that.’ 

Although sharing a son, Katie claimed in her YouTube video that the former Aston Villa footballer hasn’t seen Harvey since he was ‘four’. 

After getting her hair done, Katie said that she thinks ‘Dwight should start entering Harvey’s life, it’s been years.’

The proud mother explained that she’d love for the father and son to know each other and said ‘how can you not want to know Harv?’

Katie and Dwight had split by the time she gave birth to Harvey in May 2002 and the model has since criticised the sportsman for his treatment of their son.

The athlete initially denied he was the father after Katie fell pregnant, forcing her to undergo DNA tests to confirm he was in fact the father.

In her book Reborn, the mother-of-five insisted Dwight was unwilling to accept the limitations of his son’s disabilities.

When Harvey was born he was diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder Prader-Willi Syndrome, among other health complications including being blind due to Septo-optic dysplasia while he is also autistic, has an underactive thyroid and diabetes.

Harvey’s Prader-Willi Syndrome means he suffers with a chronic feeling of hunger, resulting in the fact he is prone to obesity.

Katie explained: ‘I’d explained Harvey’s condition to Dwight many times, but he refused to understand it and kept going on about him being fat.’