Almost half a million people who are most at risk from coronavirus have still not received a shielding letter, Mirror.co.uk can reveal.
An estimated 1.5million 'high risk' people were supposed to have received a letter or text advising them to stop all face-to-face contact for 12 weeks by Sunday March 29.
But many of those people with serious underlying health conditions have still not been contacted. These include transplant patients, people with asthma and some with rare lung diseases.
Bev Pearson, whose daughter Lucy had a heart transplant 14 years ago, told the BBC: "It's like she's been forgotten." The delay means that many people may not realise they are high risk and could potentially be putting themselves and their families at