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i'm lucy adams, a bbc correspondent. i've got a really hoarse sore throat and a headache. i got covid last year but never got better. i've been ill for eight... breaks down. i've been ill for eight months now. and i'm getting really fed up on it. like a million others in the uk, i have long covid. banging headache, i'm aching all over, got an earache, sore throat, my chest is killing me. i'm absolutely exhausted. i want to know why we're feeling so bad... just take some deep breaths in. what's behind this baffling condition? if we knew that, i feel like we'd have quite a lot of goodies to offer people to maybe, you know, make them better. and with fears of far more infections as covid restrictions are lifted, will i ever get better? doorbell rings hi, guys, how was school? good! we did mother's day stuff for you. did you? it's secret! don't tell me then! i live in glasgow with my husband andy and daughters nuala and niamh. he usually picks them up from school because i struggle to. i tend to go to bed a few times each day. when i'm up, i look fine, but ijust get more and m

lucy adams, bbc news. has also arisen over the vaccination programme. back to the football now and a record audience watched the england's defeat to italy. the viewing audience peaked at almost 31 million viewers during the penalty shootout. that makes it the most viewed television event since the funeral of princess diana in 1997. lizo mzimba looks back on the biggest tv events of each decade. last night's nation unifying event unifying event was watched by an average of 29.85 million viewers. with the vast majority watching on the bbc — the biggest tv audience of the decade, the biggest for almost a quarter of a century. it gained almost 5 million more viewers than the most watched event of the 2010s, the wedding of the duke and duchess of cambridge. and close to 10 million more than the biggest tv event of the 20005, an only fools and horses christmas special which got 21.4 million. we had to go back to the funeral of diana, princess of wales in 1997 to find a bigger viewership — that was watched by 32.

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. >> reporter: as a busy working mom, lucy adams needs all of the energy she can get. the 44-year-old from scotland says she feels twice her age since catching it last year. >> i have been ill for 8 --. >> reporter: she kept a video diary of her struggles including pain, migraine, vertigo, blurred vision. >> i look fine on the outside but i have been off work for almost a year. >> reporter: autoantibodies that attack healthy cells were found in the blood of a few number of people with longterm covid-19 you really can pick up different patterns of autoimmunity in people with long covid-19. >> reporter: even though people are living with lingering symptoms, there is no test to diagnose long covid. these findings could change that. >> i hope that within 6 months, we would have a simple blood test that you could get. >> reporter: the initial study was small, only looking at blood from dozens of people. researchers will now scale that up to learn more. lucy says she is starting to get her life back but worries it may never be like it was before covid-19. tina kraus, cbs new

our correspondent lucy adams, who has been suffering from long covid, reports.deo diary when i first got covid in march last year, thinking it would just be a few weeks' illness. i have been ill for... she sobs i have been ill for eight months now. and i'm getting really fed up of it. it's really taking its toll on my family and my relationships. door bell rings hey, guys, how was school? i'm one ofi million people in the uk suffering from long covid, an illness with a huge range of symptoms including fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog. it has had a huge impact on me and my family. much about the illness is still unknown. i look fine on the outside, but, obviously, there is still a problem. i have been off work for almost a year. still unwell, fatigue and headaches and all sorts of other problems. some believe one of the causes may be the immune system is turning on itself. we know that in some people, when they get infected with coronavirus, the body, it can also generate antibodies against self—proteins or human proteins. normally, we create antibodies to f

yeah, they thought it was too much pressure, but then lucy adams and team gb said that there is no pressure downs on social media. but this was the toughest of them all, a spectacular fall last year caught on camera and shared with her millions of fans. can you just tell us what the last 12 months have been like for you? i've been feeling, i mean, really good. ifeel like i got stronger after the accident. it may sound weird but i feel like i have more power and i'mjust more, like, ifeel like i have more of a fire in my heart to just do stuff now because, i don't know, ijust feel like i missed a little bit of time so i'm just like, ok, let's go and do this now. sky suffered skull fractures and a broken wrist and hand. her helmet and arms saved her life. she first got into skateboarding because of tutorials she'd seen on youtube. now she is representing great britain and could become the youngest 0lympic medallist for 85 years. it's really nice to have lots of fans. that really motivates me as well. you have such a wonderful smile and a great personality. we hope to speak to you... so, best o

lucy adams, bbc news. we will be hearing from the prime minister in a couple of minutes.on in england next week as we heard from the health secretary in the house of commons but what about the government language and tone on this? has that changed? they were talking, saying the easing of restrictions should be cautious but irreversible but is that still the message? it’s cautious but irreversible but is that still the message? it's not a word ou that still the message? it's not a word you hear — that still the message? it's not a word you hear very _ that still the message? it's not a word you hear very often - that still the message? it's not a word you hear very often now i that still the message? it's not a l word you hear very often now from ministers because i think they realise that there is some uncertainty here. i think that uncertainty here. i think that uncertainty is what we're talking about going into autumn and winter. we have had warnings from chris whitty and others about how difficult that is going to be but there is the more immediate short—term issues, a

yeah, they thought it was too much pressure, but then lucy adams and team gb said that there is no pressureme so i'm just like, ok, let's go and do this now. sky suffered skull fractures and a broken wrist and hand. her helmet and arms saved her life. she first got into skateboarding because of tutorials she'd seen on youtube. now she is representing great britain and could become the youngest olympic medallist for 85 years. it's really nice to have lots of fans. that really motivates me as well. you have such a wonderful smile and a great personality. we hope to speak to you... so, best of luck. thank you! thank you so much, bye. ricky boleto, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. it may look like i havejust it may look like i have just stepped out into the caribbean but i haven't. this is the sunshine from earlier on today in cornwall. today, most of us will see brighter skies and sunshine but we do have some thick cloud. this is a weather front bringing some interesting weather and this figure cloud approaching the north of scotland. that is quite likely to

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lucy hockings live from tokyo. ecuador�*s richard carapaz wins the gold in the men's olympic cycling road race, making it the country's second ever gold at a summer olympics. great britain's adamo retired from the race for a second successive games after a crash. a golden start for china — its team picks up two gold medals in shooting and weightlifting. there are still lots of medals up for grabs on the first full day of action, including in fencing and judo. i'll have all the latest. i'm ben boulos. in other news from the uk and around the world: tackling britain's "pingdemic", hundreds more covid testing sites are to be set up across england to ensure essential workers can avoid self—isolation and keep working.

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lucy hockings live from tokyo. ecuador�*s richard carapaz wins the gold in the men's olympic cycling road race, making it the country's second ever gold at a summer olympics. great britain's adamates finished 9th, but it was bad news for geraint thomas, who retired from the race for a second successive games after a crash. a golden start for china — its team picks up two gold medals in shooting and weightlifting. there are still lots of medals up for grabs on the first full day of action, including in fencing and judo. i'll have all the latest. i'm ben boulos. in other news from the uk and around the world: tackling britain's "pingdemic", hundreds more covid testing sites are to be set up across england to ensure essential workers can avoid self—isolation and keep working. president biden warns that the us is facing a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," as the delta variant of coronavirus spreads. police make arrests in sydney as thousands of anti—lockdown protesters breach covid—19 restrictions in australia's biggest city. a warm welcome to tokyo, where the first gold medals of the tokyo olympics have been awarded. 11 medals are up for grabs on the first full day of action, inclu

lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. jane will be here shortly with the news at 5. she'll be speaking to professor adamwery. it will indeed remain so across the country. here is the radar showing the rain from the north east, further south we have got showers, they are affecting the south—east so wimbledon could catch one or two and there will be further showers in the forecast for tomorrow as well. through the second half of today, the most persistent rain in the north—east here. to the south, west of the uk, a cluster of showers coming in carried by quite a strong breeze. it is still quite windy in the south, even into this evening. fairly breezy at least. not much changes through the night. lots of clear spells around but also a scattering of showers. 14 in the south, around 13 in the north. so not a particularly cold night. here is the weather map for the middle of the week, for wednesday, the low pressure around the northern isles, there's another weather front crossing the country. that is going to spark off some showers as well. generally, a fair bit of cloud around but also i think some decent