The father unable to hug his teenage daughter. The retired nurse too scared to walk down the street to the shops. The 25-year-old transplant patient whose friends no longer call because he hasn’t left the house in nearly three years, and the 70-year-old former teacher who has had no visitors since the beginning of the pandemic.
These are just a few of the heartbreaking stories of the Britons with serious health conditions that mean they are still in self-isolation, shielding