Covid restrictions may seem like a distant memory, but hundreds of thousands are still testing positive. In the week up to April 29, 105,331 people in the UK tested positive for Covid-19.
The good news is infections and hospital admissions have dropped since a peak last month, but the effects of the virus can linger.
A newspaper editor has opened up about the unusual effect long Covid has had on her. Wales Online editor Chiara Rinaldi, 38, revealed the torrid time has had since her infection. Read more:Bill Gates says world has not seen worst of Covid The mum-of-two was so tired she felt she was in a "state of otherworldliness" and would wonder if she could make it home from the school drop-off in the days before she tested positive.
Initially, she thought she had a migraine. "I went to the GP. It was hard to put into words how I was feeling - I had a weakness on one side of my body that would come and go, dizzy spells and brain fog that left me unable to remember that I started making a cup of tea," "I thought maybe it was a deficiency or perhaps anaemia, but the GP found a water infection.