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How has the announcement that more people in the UK should shield affected you?

A large Covid-19 sign on the A4 in Buckinghamshire.
A large Covid-19 sign on the A4 in Buckinghamshire. Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock

The UK government has announced that almost 2 million more people in England will be asked to shield, and 800,000 of those offered priority vaccinations, thanks to new modelling which has identified adults at a higher risk of suffering serious symptoms from coronavirus.

The new tool, called QCovid, analyses risk based on a combination of health factors and their circumstances, including ethnicity and income.

We’d like to speak to people who have been told that they should shield as a result of the new modelling, or are expecting this.

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