‘Please don’t forget us’: Covid shielders speak out over lack of government support

As the Omicron variant spreads rapidly, many clinically extremely vulnerable people in England are being forced to isolate in fear of their lives

Once a week at about 5.30am, Hayley Ashton pulls two masks over her face, sanitises a shopping trolley with her handbag disinfectant then takes a deep breath before stepping into the fluorescent glare of her local supermarket in Leicester.

These grocery trips feel for Ashton, a 33-year-old project manager who is immunocompromised and has severe asthma, like treacherous expeditions where she risks serious illness or death. “It’s the one area you just can’t control,” she said.

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