The Cost of Long Covid

Published: May 18, 2021, 7:40 p.m.

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Latest figures show more than a million people in Britain are suffering from long Covid. For many the condition is completely debilitating. The extreme fatigue, breathing difficulties, brain-fog is forcing hundreds of thousands of previously fit, working people on to long term sick. File on 4 hears from the hero frontline workers who kept Britain going through the pandemic but now feel abandoned. Others reveal how they\\u2019ve felt pressurised to return to work even though they\\u2019re very ill. So who\\u2019s looking after them \\u2013 and who, if anyone, is going to support them when their sick pay runs out?

Reporter: Paul Kenyon\\nProducer: Mick Tucker\\nEditor: Carl Johnston

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