Covid-19 patients may take longer than a year and medical care for such people should take this into consideration, said a study published in The Lancet journal.
It said that Covid-19 survivors were found to be less healthy than people who had not been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19 at least a year after they had suffered from the disease.
At least half the people hospitalised experienced at least one persistent symptom up to 12 months after the infection. Around three-quarters of patients had persistent health problems after six months of infection. "Our study is the largest to date to assess the health outcomes of hospitalised Covid-19 survivors after 12 months of becoming ill," said professor Bin Cao from