Layla Moran, who chairs the all party parliamentary group on coronavirus, said it had received harrowing evidence about devastated lives and careers. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA
Layla Moran, who chairs the all party parliamentary group on coronavirus, said it had received harrowing evidence about devastated lives and careers. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA
Mon 26 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT
More than 450 key workers with long Covid have told a cross-party parliamentary inquiry of their experiences of the condition, including struggles to return to work and lack of financial support, with one in 10 having lost their job.
Nurses, teachers, GPs, police officers and midwives were among those who shared their experience of long Covid, symptoms of which include debilitating fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pains, sleeping difficulties and brain fog.
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