Thousands of people have reported symptoms of Long Covid Photo: Shutterstock While Covid-19 passes quickly for most people some have found themselves suffering for weeks or months beyond the initial illness. Research suggests around one in five people who test positive for Covid-19 have symptoms for five weeks or longer with around one in 10 people reporting debilitating effects for more than three months. Some people report Long Covid as like a cycle of improving and then getting worse again and these long-term effects aren’t only among those who needed hospital treatment, or even who felt seriously unwell when they first caught the virus.