ANDREW Marr suffered with a “nasty bout” of Covid – despite being double-jabbed, he told viewers this morning.
The BBC news presenter revealed he contracted the deadly virus last week.
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And he believes he may have been infected while covering the G7 summit in Cornwall earlier this month.
Marr revealed the illness this morning on his television show as he interviewed Professor Sir Peter Horby, of virus advisory group Nervtag.
He said: “I hope it’s not self-indulgent to ask you about me, because I got coronavirus last week.
“I’d been double jabbed earlier in the spring and felt, if not king of the world, at least almost entirely immune.
“And yet I got it. Was I just unlucky?”
The academic replies: “I think you were.
“What we know with the vaccines is that they are actually remarkably effective at preventing hospitalisations and deaths.
“They are less effective at preventing infection.
“So, although you were sick, you weren’t hospitalised and there wasn’t any fatality, and that is probably because of the vaccination.”
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