Mask wearing is no longer compulsory, lateral flow tests cost £2 each and the Government has ended the CEV category. However, for many high-risk people the pandemic is not overExclusive: Over one million high-risk people still in lockdown after Covid restrictions liftedSome 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. Mask wearing is no longer compulsory and from this month lateral flow tests cost £2 each and the Government has ended the CEV category. “He’s terrified, I’m terrified for him.”Lynn said many carers have stockpiled lateral flow tests when they were free.

Source: Daily Mirror April 17, 2022 05:31 UTC