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Call for greater understanding about Long Covid

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Doctors say some people who contracted coronavirus almost a year ago, still have not fully recovered. While most people get better within weeks, a support group for people with Long Covid has called for greater understanding about their condition.

A UK study has estimated that as many as one in ten people who contract Covid-19 still experience symptoms 12 weeks on. Dr Liam Townsend, Specialist Registrar Infectious Diseases St James's Hospital, said that almost a year on, they are still seeing many people who are still quite symptomatic, who have not returned to work at all or still are not back full time yet.

At the moment they are seeing patients who are predominantly suffering from fatigue and a reduction in exercise tolerance, which

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