A professor at Kingston University is calling for people with learning disabilities to be prioritised when a Covid vaccine becomes available

It’s after a report from Public Health England revealed higher numbers of coronavirus deaths within this group of people.

Those with learning disabilities are more than 6 times more likely to die from the virus than the rest of the population.

There are more than 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability.

Professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne says they need to be regularly tested for the virus even if they are asymptomatic.

The same must go for their families and carers.