Carol Vorderman 'couldn't walk 100 yards' for months following Covid-19 battle

Carol Vorderman "couldn't walk 100 yards" without struggling to breathe following her battle with Covid-19.

The former Countdown presenter was secretly struck down by the virus before the first lockdown in March last year, and during an appearance on Good Morning Britain on Monday, she revealed she suffered from long Covid, a term which has been coined to describe people who still battle symptoms weeks or months after their initial infection.

In Carol's case, she revealed that she suffered from long Covid for around three months and couldn't breathe well enough to walk even 100 yards.

"I got Covid before lockdown, long Covid," she shared. "You know I'm a walker, so I can go off on a nice little 15-miler today. But I couldn't walk 100 yards. Months later I still couldn't walk 100 yards. I would be gasping for breath, for probably three months."

When asked by host Richard Madeley about how she is doing 15 months on, the 60-year-old added: "I'm fine now."

The TV personality received her first dose of coronavirus vaccine in February, and posted a video in which she grew emotional as she thanked the staff working at the Ashton Gate Stadium vaccination centre in Bristol.

"It was quite an emotional thing really to see everybody," she told viewers, holding back tears. "It is just an extraordinary system here in Ashton Gate in Bristol. Thank you everybody. It is really meaningful. They have all said they want to get through as many people as they possibly can.

"That is why they are doing it, so that we are all then protected and safe from this terrible thing that has been going on for the last year, so we can get back to our families. So, thank you NHS and thank you everybody for a wonderful morning."