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By Tom Gerken
image captionJo has been unable to work since last June because of her symptoms
A midwife has told the BBC how long Covid left her in a wheelchair as Boris Johnson faces calls to compensate key workers suffering from the condition.
A total of 65 MPs and peers have signed a letter to the PM, asking for it to be recognised as an occupational disease.
Before June 2020, Jo Aitken was working as an NHS community midwife. She now needs a wheelchair to leave the house.
She says long Covid changed her life completely.
It can present as a range of different symptoms suffered by people weeks or months after being infected with the virus, even for those who weren t seriously ill when they had it.
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