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Patients and MPs have urged Boris Johnson to declare long Covid an occupational disease and pay compensation to frontline staff who say they cannot return to work because they have sore feet, weak legs and smell fake odours months after being infected with coronavirus. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus warned the disease will likely have an enormous impact for years to come, with up to a fifth of patients suffering persistent, long-term symptoms including ongoing fatigue, brain fog , loss of taste or smell, and respiratory problems. The group wants the Government to follow France, Germany, Belgium and Denmark, which have formally recognised coronavirus as an occupational disease . ....
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The Government has been urged to launch a compensation scheme for frontline workers who are suffering from the long-term effects of coronavirus. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus said Prime Minister Boris Johnson should recognise long Covid as an occupational disease, saying some sufferers have found it hard to return to work. Symptoms of long Covid include ongoing fatigue, loss of taste or smell, and respiratory and cardiovascular problems, and this week Professor Danny Altmann, from Imperial College London, said up to 20% of patients are reporting symptoms of the disease weeks after becoming ill. APPG chairwoman Layla Moran said: “Long Covid is the hidden health crisis of the pandemic, and it is likely to have an enormous impact on society for many years to come. ....