PIERS Morgan has revealed he's still battling long Covid five months after the virus left him bedbound.

The former Good Morning Britain anchor, 56, was double jabbed at the time he contracted the illness and has said the outcome could have been much worse had he not been vaccinated.

He shared that that he's still overcoming effects of coronavirus in a Twitter exchange with Sky News Technology Correspondent Rowland Manthorpe, 39.

Writing about his own long Covid battle, Rowland posted: "Don’t like putting personal things on Twitter, but I’ve just logged on after a while and found a load of DMs asking why I’ve disappeared, which is… a good question If you haven’t seen me recently it’s because I’ve got a nasty case of long Covid. Eight months and counting :(."

Piers replied: "DM me… I had same for five months but new meds seem to be cracking it."

In the summer, a month after falling ill, Piers told fans: "A new treat – aside from ongoing tedious fatigue and inability to taste wine, all the coughing’s caused a ‘posterior vitreous detachment’ in my left eye. 

"I’m now seeing weird ghostly cobwebs swimming around. It really is the virus that keeps on giving."

A posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is a condition where your vitreous comes away from the retina at the back of your eye.

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PVD can cause sufferers to see floaters, or small dark spots or shapes, and flashing lights.

Piers is convinced he was infected during the chaos at Wembley amid England's heartbreaking defeat to Italy in the Euro 2020 final on July 11.

At first he was struck down with a raging fever, chills and violent coughing fits.

He previously wrote in the Mail on Sunday that on July 16 he suffered through a "horrible night of high fever, cold sweats, ferocious coughing and sneezing and strange aches all over my body, none of which has been helped by the very hot weather that's turned my bedroom into a Saharan furnace".

Days later he said he was "hit by a sudden, brutal blast of debilitating fatigue that left me flat-lined in bed all day and feeling as if I'd been run over".

By July 21 he was "still flat-lined in bed".

He wrote: "Been a week now and although the fever's long gone, the fatigue keeps overwhelming me like a soporific tidal wave. I haven't even read a newspaper since developing symptoms, which for a news junkie like me is unprecedented."

Piers said the vaccine had saved his life, and his thoughts were with former GMB colleague Kate Garraway's husband Derek Draper – whose body was ravaged by coronavirus last year.

He wrote: "Derek is three years younger than me and remains in a virtual coma 15 months after being rushed to hospital at the height of the first wave of the pandemic with a headache and breathing issues.

"Of course, the big and very fortunate difference for me is that vaccines have since been developed and I'm double-jabbed with the Oxford/AstraZeneca one."

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