1.3M are still in lockdown

GOVT IS ‘FORGETTING’ COVID VULNERABLE

SOME 1.3 million very high-risk people are still in lockdown, fearing for their lives as the Government lifts Covid curbs.

They are among 3.7 million in England deemed clinically extremely vulnerable at the start of the pandemic, who struggle to make antibodies.

Vaccines fail to protect them from serious illness and even death. They can have anti-virals if they test positive, but many struggle to access them.

Mask wearing is no longer compulsory and from this month lateral flow tests cost £2 each and the Government has ended the CEV category.

Mary Morris, 49, whose kids Adam, 11, and Annabelle, 13, are highly vulnerable, said: “Everyone’s going back to normal and they forget that there are families like us. You feel like the rug’s been pulled from beneath you.”

Lara Wong, founder of Facebook support group

They are segregated, the

outside world could kill them

Clinically Vulnerable Families, said the Government should order Astrazeneca’s drug Evusheld to protect high-risk Britons before they become ill. It contains antibodies that, when taken for six months, reduces cases of symptomatic Covid by 83%. She said: “People are getting worried that nothing is happening.”

Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper accused the Government of segregation. She said: “These people are locked behind their doors because the outside world could kill them.

“It would be devastating for the

immunocompromised if Britain doesn’t place an order soon.”

Susan Walsh, of charity Immunodeficiency UK, said: “My heart goes out to high-risk people.” She said getting Evusheld, approved for UK use in March, would be “fantastic”.

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