2 YEARS ON The virus is still RUINING OUR LIVES

As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, a new normal faces us all and, for many, it’s a very different landscape.

And for some, the virus is far from over. Despite it being months, and in some cases years, since they first tested positive, more than a million people in the UK are now living with long COVID.

Plagued with fatigue, breathlessness, tightness in the chest, brain fog, dizziness, heart palpitations, fever, cough, headaches and, in some cases, depression and anxiety, sufferers might no longer be testing positive for COVID-19 but are still feeling the devastating effects.

Long COVID was finally recognised by the British Medical Association as an occupational disease in September 2021. speaks to two women who caught COVID-19 early in the pandemic, yet whose lives are still being