Covid-19: Recognise long covid as occupational disease and compensate frontline workers, say MPs

MPs have stepped up pressure on ministers to recognise “long covid” as an occupational disease and compensate frontline health other key workers living with its “debilitating” effects. The proposal by the All Party Parliamentary Group Coronavirus has won backing of 65 peers, well BMA.1 Layla Moran, a Liberal Democrat MP who chairs group, said that “heroes pandemic” contracted covid-19 while serving public should be eligible for regular monthly compensation payments. “These are people saved our lives, quite literally . it’s only right we save their livelihoods,” she told BBC’s …