this virus takes anyone. it will take anyone as prisoner. bernie became seriously ill at christmas. long covid has taken all my confidence in the sense that i ve been so frightened to jog, i ve been so frightened to even walk. my other half had to hold me physically to walk up to the end of the road. and i thought, come on, bernie! you know, you vejogged 5k, why can t you do this? so lots of people tell us about feeling anxious, perhaps a bit low in mood. the impact of long covid is notjust physical a key part of the programme here is a regular mental health session. so when i woke up from ecmo i couldn t move a muscle, so the physios have worked absolute wonders on me. haley s just 31. she s a teaching assistant and also became ill in december last year. although it has been hard to get back and there has been sort of the mental health side of things with the anxiety and the health
we will be speaking more to her later in the programme. we have got a long interview with her. wales fans will be waking up with a smile on their faces, despite losing 1 0 to italy in rome yesterday. that s because they re still going through to the knockout stage of the euros after coming second in their group. our wales correspondent hywel griffith is in rome. it isa it is a strange result but want to celebrate, isn t it? it is a strange result but want to celebrate, isn t it? oh, absolutely. des-ite celebrate, isn t it? oh, absolutely. despite the celebrate, isn t it? oh, absolutely. despite the defeat celebrate, isn t it? oh, absolutely. despite the defeat the celebrate, isn t it? oh, absolutely. despite the defeat the players - celebrate, isn t it? oh, absolutely. despite the defeat the players will| despite the defeat the players will wake up in rome this morning with a huge sense of relief, because the result here and the result in baku between switzerland and turkey mean
coventry hospital across the midlands. also on the programme today, we are going to be having doctor chris smith and professor linda bauld sitting in our grass chairs, which are a little bit too slender. i m not sure they can take my considerable romp. i am fully wedged in. we are also going to be live on an orthopaedic ward. and the health secretary, matt hancock, will be joining us exclusively live on bbc breakfast this morning at half past eight. lots of questions to put to him. i m sure you have got some for him. do send your questions in for doctor chris and professor linda. they love to answer your questions. we will have plenty of time to go through them later. lots to come from coventry. louise is in the studio. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning, i m asad ahmad. for the first time new flexible rail season tickets go on sale today, allowing londoners and those
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became a patient. this programme was set up by her colleagues in the first place specifically to help her. i m really proud of being the reason why they set up this covid rehab programme. and after six weeks of rehab, intense exercise, i was able to walk on my own. can you imagine? i was so happy! it s been a long road for raj and jocelyn. some may never fully recover, butjocelyn is now back at work on the respiratory ward at epsom hospital, once again helping people to fight this virus. i d like to say thank you tojocelyn and raj and everybody in leatherhead, quite difficult to talk about this and they did it brilliantly. the government says it is pumping an extra £100 million