Coping with Covid

Delays with at-home sexual health tests leave Bristolians with a sense of frustration

Since the pandemic, walk-in sexual health services in Bristol have given way to home testing kits – but some people are complaining of long delays and inconclusive results, with the council acknowledging access is a 'key issue'.

Andy Leake

Features

‘Bone numbingly tired’: The exhausting reality of Long-Covid

Hannah Vickers

Coping with Covid

Covid-19 brings difficult times for Trans people in Bristol as government expected to ditch reforms

Sage Brice

Coronavirus in Bristol

Living with OCD during a global health crisis

Back to normality? Not for those among us who have an uphill battle ahead of them. We spoke to Hannah, who lives with severe symptoms of OCD, to hear about her life during Covid-19.

Clara Rose Bullock

Coronavirus in Bristol

Last Orders? When can we have a pint again?!

Marcus Smith

Coronavirus in Bristol

The Bristolians falling through the gaps of the government’s Covid-19 financial help

Jess Connett

Coronavirus in Bristol

The difficulty of having a parent in a Bristol care home during lockdown

Care home staff are working harder than ever, but Cable member Kate Oliver reflects on how visiting restrictions and worries about infections are affecting her and her 97-year-old mum.

Kate Oliver

Coronavirus in Bristol

Lockdown through a child’s eyes in Bristol

Missing friends but enjoying rare time with family. Feeling cabin bound but not having to go to school. Lockdown for kids in Bristol has both upsides and downsides.

Jack Clements

Coping with Covid

A Ramadan like no other in coronavirus Bristol

With coronavirus restrictions in full force and lockdown extended, mosques remain closed, big iftar dinners cancelled, and worship confined to the home. And so, this Ramadan is like no other.

Fatima Hudoon

Coronavirus in Bristol

How to cope as a parent expecting during the unexpected

The Cable speaks to soon to be parents to share how they've been coping with changes to visiting rules at hospitals.

Fatima Hudoon

Coronavirus in Bristol