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Almost half of all people with a disability have yet to recover from the pandemic, report finds
A member of staff wearing PPE walks through a ward for Covid patients at King's College Hospital, in south east London

ALMOST half of all people with a disability have yet to recover from their experiences of the Covid pandemic, a damning report finds.

Sense, a national charity which aims to support people with complex needs, has published the findings just two days before the third anniversary of the unprecedented national lockdown on March 23 2020.

The research has found that people living with a disability were disproportionately affected not only by Covid itself, but the measures taken to stem its spread.

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