Long covid is defined as symptoms persisting or new symptoms appearing more than four weeks after initial infection. In March 2022, an estimated 1.5 million people in the UK (2.4 pc of the population) reported long covid symptoms, mainly fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of smell, loss of taste, and difficulty concentrating
Despite a record surge of cases nationwide, China reported no Covid deaths on the mainland for five days through Saturday, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday.
A leaked document says that almost 250 million people in China have been affected in just 20 days after the ‘Zero-COVID Policy’ was diluted in the first week of the month
According to reports, around 5.37 lakh fresh cases of the infection were reported in a 24-hour period recently from countries such as the United States, Japan, South Korea, France and Brazil, the IMA said