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Dorset-based charity Long Covid Kids delivers a new support guide to the government.

The group is also calling for an education policy to support children living with long Covid, who struggle to study with symptoms like fatigue and brain fog.Sammie Mcfarland set up Long Covid Kids after she and her daughter both caught the virus in March 2020

Eva, 14, from Alton in Hampshire, said she would "probably be quite tired tomorrow" but the trip was "worth it". She added: "It's almost like it doesn't really exist. Now they've taken the mask restrictions away and say we're going to live with Covid - well these kids clearly aren't living with Covid, they're struggling every day with long Covid."

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