Lockdown Lothario

Mandy Scotney, 47, Margate

Ripping open the envelope, I felt a rising sense of panic as I read my doctor’s warning.

We advise you to shield, he had typed in the letter.

A nervous knot tightened in the pit of my stomach.

I’d been diagnosed with severe asthma as a child.

And as I watched the coronavirus pandemic sweep the nation early last year, I knew that I was at high risk of becoming dangerously ill.

‘You need