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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shaheena Uddin

‘I’ve stopped being eligible for the Covid vaccine and I’ve caught it three times in six months’

The 27-year-old says her health condition makes her feel ‘cut off from society’ - (Supplied)

A woman who had half her lung removed has called for the Covid vaccine to be given the same priority as the flu jab after she caught the virus three times in the months since she was dropped from the eligibility list.

Ella Halpern-Matthews, a historian from Kent, has a severe respiratory illness and has been asthmatic since birth.

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