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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