Piers Morgan reveals he caught Covid at Euro 2020 final despite being double jabbed

Piers Morgan has revealed he’s had a “long ten days” of battling Covid after he caught the virus amid the chaos of the Euro 2020 final.

Announcing the news via Twitter on Saturday afternoon, the outspoken broadcaster, 56, said he had suffered a raging fever, coughing fits and other coronavirus-related ailments, despite having received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZenecavaccine.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the former ‘Good Morning Britain’ host said he believes he contracted the disease while watching England’s defeat to Italy at Wembley.

Describing the historic event as an “unregulated free-for-all,” he said his “confidence that [it] would be ‘Covid safe’ disintegrated” when he saw the masses of ticketless gatecrashers barging their way into the stadium.

Morgan said he began to feel unwell two days after the game so he took a lateral flow test, which came back positive.

He then took a PCR test which confirmed the result four days after his Wembley outing, the Mail Online reports.

“As I’m sure everyone who gets it feels, it’s a strange, disquieting moment to know I have this killer virus inside me,” he wrote in his column, to be published tomorrow.

The 56-year-old added that he spoke to a respiratory expert who told him that no current jab offers full protection against infection – because of the emergence of new variants – but they do all provide strong protection against hospitalisation or death, so it’s definitely still crucial to get yours booked in.

In his Mail on Sunday piece, Morgan added: “My voice now sounds like Barry White, though I couldn’t feel less like a Walrus of Love.”

His symptoms have now subsided, according to the paper, but his period in self-isolation gave him time to reflect on the pandemic.

“This is definitely the roughest I’ve felt from any illness in my adult life, BUT, as I slowly come out the other side, coughing and spluttering, I’m still here – unlike so many millions around the world who’ve lost their lives to Covid in this pandemic,” he wrote.

“For that, I owe a heartfelt debt of thanks to the brilliant scientists up in Oxford who created the Astra-Zeneca vaccine with such astonishing speed.”