Advice needed please - Ref. Covid

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Hi all, I am here for some advice please.
Basically - What would you do ???-

I've caught covid in January and been hospitalised. Since then I've been off sick (I'm a TA) with long covid. It means I spend most of the time knackered, with pain all over my body, joints, bones, troat and umbearable headaches.
The agency I work for has been paying me SSP and is now forcing me to go back to work on the 8th march, otherwise they will withdraw my assignment :(
I know that I can't go back just yet because I am feeling awful, but I do miss going to work and to a normal life, not to mention about having a salary.
But I am scared to death of getting covid again and ending up in hospital again (my mum is in the ICU atm as well fighting for her life), as we are not having our vaccines any time soon...
I know that although I want to go back to a normal life, this is a heck of a death trap for me as I have asthma, so, for more that I want, I am reluctanlty thinking about giving up :( wich is also shit shit shit )

I've never been sacked or made redundant before and I am also scared of the impact this will make on my carreer in the future, and what's going to be my justification for leaving this job because of covid ?:(

What I want to know if anyone can help me is: Should I wait for them to withdraw my assignment and make me redundant/sacked ? Or should I take the first step towards sending my resignation letter ?

Please if anyone with experinece in this situation can help me. I am focusing here in the best way to get out of this terrible situation without damaging my professional life and future.

Thank you

If you had covid in January, there is some good news - the chances of you getting it again before you get the vaccine is almost nil. So you have to decide - it isn't clear in your post as you say both - if you don't want to work due to the fear of Covid, then you are worrying unnecessarily. If its because you are still too sick to work, then that is what you tell the agency. If they withdraw the assignment, they do. It's probably not as big a thing to worry about as you think. To be fair to them, they need someone in school, whether that is you or someone else. But if you are genuinely too ill then you do yourself no favours in doing anything other than telling the truth. Nobody is going to hold it against you that you were one of the unfortunate few who took longer to get over the infection. You get yourself better, and get back to work when you are.