By Laura Connor & Grace Macaskill
22:32, 26 SEP 2020
UPDATED11:41, 27 SEP 2020
Up to half a million survivors of coronavirus with crippling long-term symptoms may be the latest victims of go?vernment bungling.
... As many as 500,000 Brits – including thousands in their 20s and 30s – have severe symptoms months after they became infected.
Experts warn long-Covid could become one of the worst legacies of the crisis.
... “The NHS set up long-Covid clinics and announced them in July. I’m concerned by reports this morning… that not all GPs know how to ensure people can get into those services and that’s something I will take up with the NHS and I am sure that we will be able to resolve.”
22:32, 26 SEP 2020
UPDATED11:41, 27 SEP 2020
Up to half a million survivors of coronavirus with crippling long-term symptoms may be the latest victims of go?vernment bungling.
... As many as 500,000 Brits – including thousands in their 20s and 30s – have severe symptoms months after they became infected.
Experts warn long-Covid could become one of the worst legacies of the crisis.
... “The NHS set up long-Covid clinics and announced them in July. I’m concerned by reports this morning… that not all GPs know how to ensure people can get into those services and that’s something I will take up with the NHS and I am sure that we will be able to resolve.”