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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

NHS covid app closing next month, but pandemic is far from over for disabled people

Remember the spring of 2020? That awful, miserable time when we were forced to stay indoors and couldn’t hug our mums? Queuing at supermarkets, endless confusing rules and the doom hanging over our heads.

Maybe that’s how many of you remember it - and I’m not taking away from that - but for disabled people, it was an even scarier time.

When everyone was pushed into shock lockdown on March 23rd, we’d already been in it for at least a week. We were told to shield in our houses and given very little support.

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