“I’ve had nearly every symptom in the book, and there’s a list of over 100 - from crawling skin and really strange stuff, at one point my nervous system went haywire,” she said. Georgia, one of the founding members of the 300-strong Long Covid group in Wales, was one among the many with such condition who claimed they were unable to return to work for how debilitated they were. After eight weeks of symptoms, Georgia went to her GP when the surgeries re-opened. “A lot of people in paid employment are struggling to get sick notes or sick pay as we’re struggling to get it recognised. “A GP won’t put long Covid on a sick note so people are being pressured back to work.”

Source: Daily Mirror November 22, 2020 16:35 UTC