Political pundit Andrew Marr has revealed he had a "nasty" bout of Covid, despite being double jabbed.
Marr said he caught the virus at the G7 Summit in Cornwall earlier this month.
On his TV show this morning he told Professor Sir Peter Horby, chairman of the virus advisory group Nervtag: "I hope it is not self indulgent Sir Peter to ask you about me, because I got coronavirus last week.
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"I’d been double jabbed earlier in the spring and felt, if not king of the world, at least almost entirely immune. And yet I got it, was I just unlucky?"
Sir Peter said: "I think you were. What we know with the vaccines is that they are actually remarkably effective at preventing hospitalisations and deaths.
"They are less effective at preventing infection. So although you were sick you were not hospitalised and there wasn’t’ any fatality and that is probably because of the vaccination."
At the G7 Summit Marr grilled the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on a Public Health England report which found a dozen Brits died from the Delta variant despite having had both their Covid vaccines, Cornwall Live reports.
Marr's revelation comes after a Government spokesman and public health officials in Cornwall denied the recent surge in Covid cases in the Duchy - particularly in St Ives and Falmouth, towns which hosted the summit - is down to the G7.
