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Two care workers with long Covid relying on foodbanks after council cuts their pay due to absences
Vension from wild deer, which normally would have gone to some of the most expensive restaurants in the country, is distributed to people using the Ringcross Foodbank, in north London

by our industrial reporter @TrinderMatt

TWO committed care workers are relying on foodbanks to survive after their council stopped paying them due to absences caused by long Covid, the Unite union revealed today.

The Bedford Borough Council employees contracted coronavirus at the end of 2020 during an outbreak at their workplace, in which about of third of the staff went down with the virus.

Both have been off sick ever since with a diagnosis of long Covid, a poorly understood condition that can cause chronic tiredness, brain fog and memory loss.

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