Dr Hilary Jones has urged Brits to take vitamin D after a new key study into the supplement has found it could reduce the risk of coronavirus.
ITV's resident health expert spoke to Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid about the study carried out by Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
It found that European countries with lower vitamin D levels have recorded more Covid-19 fatalities, the Mirror Online reports.
Watch the video above to see what Dr Hilary has to say about this new study
Dr Hilary went on to explain how our immune systems could be given a boost with vitamin D.
He said: "Well, we recommend vitamin D in the winter months for everybody in the UK because we make most of our vitamin D through the action of sunlight on our skin."
Dr Hilary explained that people often cover their skin in the winter so that the "action of sunlight isn't very much there in the UK".
He continued to speak about how those in the BAME community are more likely to die from covid-19, linking it to vitamin D.
"It’s interesting, we know the pigment in their skin being higher reduces the production of vitamin D, so it could be a factor in why they’re so vulnerable with Covid-19," he said.
"It does no harm for people to take an extra dose, say 10 micrograms a day.
"There’s no concrete evidence that taking those supplements will reduce the risk of Covid-19, but there’s no harm in taking it either, it’s a sensible precaution at this stage."
Dr Hilary went on to say that vitamin D is known more generally to boost our immune system and "ability to fight viruses and other bacteria."
Earlier this week, Dr Hilary said that people should not get carried away following scientists' new discovery of a breakthrough drug which could reduce covid-19 deaths.
Steroid dexamethasone being used as a treatment for coronavirus has been hailed as a "major breakthrough".
"We mustn’t get carried away by a report that says we have cut the death rate by a third of people on ventilators," he said. "Look, the death rate even with dexamethasone is still 28%.
"So, it’s still massively high, this is still a very nasty virus."
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