HALF OF HOSPITALISED COVID PATIENTS HAVE PERSISTING SYMPTOMS AFTER A YEAR: LANCET STUDY

Around half the people hospitalised with COVID-19 experience at least one persistent symptom up to 12 months after the infection, according to a study published in The Lancet journal on Friday. The research on 1,276 patients from Wuhan, China, shows that around one in three people still experienced shortness of breath after 12 months, while lung impairments persisted in some patients, especially those who had experienced the most severe illness with COVID-19. COVID-19 survivors were found to be less healthy than people from the wider community who had not been infected with the SARS-COV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.