Coronavirus: 60,000 may have 'long Covid' for more than three months – UK study

Researchers say people with prolonged symptoms at risk of being forgotten as they struggle to get help

Up to 60,000 people in the UK may have been suffering from long Covid" for more than three months, unable to get the care they need to recover from prolonged and debilitating symptoms.

Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London who runs the app-based Covid symptom study, said around 300,000 people had reported symptoms lasting for more than a month.