Gender: Male Ethnicity: Pakistani Background: Kashif is 35 years old and is Pakistani. He is married, with three children. He is a company director. Kashif first heard about the Covid-19 outbreak on social media. He believes he caught the virus when he was going into his shop to sort deliveries and conduct online work. When Kashif began to show symptoms of Covid his parents encouraged him to get tested. The test confirmed that he was positive for Covid.

Gender: Male Ethnicity: Pakistani Background: Zubair is 46 years old and is Pakistani. He is married with a child and is a local authority council worker. Zubair received help from a Muslim charity when he had Covid. They delievered him hot meals everyday so he did not have to worry about grocery shopping.

Gender: Female Ethnicity: Black African Background: Miura is 36 years old and is Black African. She is a support worker for people with learning disabilities. Miura caught Covid in August 2020. She took paracetamol to help with her symptoms, but she felt like it did not help her condition at all.

Gender: Female Ethnicity: Indian Background: Sarita is in her 40s and is Indian. She works as a child-minder. Sarita experienced change of taste as a result of Covid. Things that were supposed to taste sweet tasted salty to her.

Gender: Female Ethnicity: Indian Background: Sindhu is 40 years old and is Indian. She is married with two children and works as an accountant. Sindhu's sense of smell and taste changed when she had Covid. She says that even now, some foods do not taste the same as they did before she had Covi

Gender: Male Ethnicity: Indian Background: Goutam is 52 years old and is Indian. He is married and has two children, and works in IT implementation management. Goutam developed Covid symptoms during the first week of the first national lockdown. He was taken into intensive care after his oxygen levels remained too low. He found the experience disturbing, but his family gave him strength.

Ethnicity: Pakistani Background: Samena is 32 years old and is Pakistani. She is married and has two children. Samena felt overwhelmed and frustrated during the first lockdown but didn't catch Covid until February 2021. She feels that guidance around testing has been easy to follow, but rarer symptoms need to be discussed more.

Ethnicity: Bangladeshi Background: Fahmida is 40 years old and is Bangladeshi. She lives with her husband and children and works as a teaching assistant. Brief Outline: Fahmida became very unwell with Covid so her husband rang the emergency services. When she arrived at hospital, she had a variety of tests that all came back normal. The doctors gave her a anti-vomiting tablet which helped keep her food down and gain strength to combat the illness.

Gender: Female Ethnicity: Jewish Background: Esther is 26 years old and is Jewish. Esther tested positive for Covid in January 2021. She unclear when she caught the virus, believing she either caught it attending her grandfather's funeral or when her family gathered to support her grandmother during that difficult time. Esther was ill for weeks after testing positive and now suffers from long Covid symptoms.

Gender: Male Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish Background: Rabbi Wollenberg is 46 years old and is Ashkenazi Jewish. He is a Rabbi and works with the Orthodox Jewish community. Rabbi Wollenberg caught Covid early in the pandemic. He never got a high temperature, but being breathless and having chest pain led him to attending Accident and Emergency services at hospital. Having Covid made him confront his own mortality, but he is glad to have made a recovery and resumed his work.