Broadcaster has been campaigning for Frances, who has learning disabilities and diabetes, to be prioritised for a jab

Jo Whiley has missed her BBC Radio 2 evening show on Thursday after her sister, who has learning disabilities and diabetes, was admitted to hospital with coronavirus.

The broadcaster, who has been campaigning for her younger sister Frances to be prioritised for the jab, wrote on Twitter that her sister Frances had become “very poorly” since testing positive after an outbreak at her care home in Northamptonshire.

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