The Duchess of Cornwall has suggested she is looking forward to being reunited with her grandchildren as she thanked volunteers for supporting the vaccine rollout.
Camilla, who is president of the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS), chatted to helpers who have given up their free time and to medical staff as she toured the capital’s largest inoculation centre in Wembley.
During the visit the duchess, who has been vaccinated, shared words of encouragement with those waiting for their jabs: “It feels like the first step of freedom, I certainly felt like that.”
Camilla chats to Pippa Nightingale, chief nursing officer for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as she tours the Wembley vaccination centre (Royal Voluntary Service/PA)
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Coronavirus in numbers
Tens of thousands of coronavirus survivors needing long-term care are heaping pressure on Britain’s stretched community services, threatening a crisis that experts warn could dwarf that seen in hospitals over the past 12 months.
As many as 100,000 intensive care patients, including up to 15,000 Covid-19 survivors, will need long-term community nursing care after being discharged from hospitals during the past 12 months,
The Independent has been told.
This will be on top of an as yet unknown number of Covid patients from the 350,000 treated on general wards since the pandemic began, as well as tens of thousands of people who were sick without going to hospital but have been left with debilitating symptoms of long Covid.