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The study from China involved more than 1,700 patients first diagnosed with the virus in Wuhan between January and May,  and then followed to June and September. Researchers report that 76% of these patients had at least one symptom six months after symptoms began.

For many hard-hit patients, lung function was still compromised half a year later. More than half of people who required ventilation had a reduced flow of oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream, and about a quarter of others had that problem. Patients with severe disease also performed worse in a six-minute walking test, with about a quarter of them unable to reach the lower distance limit of the normal range, the study said. The study followed patients discharged from Jin Yin-tan Hospital in Wuhan, where the virus emerged. Their median age was 57. Meanwhile, a study published in the New En...

More than three quarters of COVID-19 patients have at least one ongoing symptom six months after initially becoming unwell, according to research published in The Lancet.

Fatigue, weakness and anxiety remain for many of the earliest patients hospitalized with Covid-19.