This isn’t the first time COVID-19 has been found to have negative long-term impact on the body.
Recent studies have also found it can increase a person’s risk of heart failure, heart attack, and stroke by over 50 percent.
As a result, health professionals are calling for more resources to be put into bolstering the health system so it can cope with numbers of long Covid patients.
This comes at a time when the NHS is trying to reduce its backlog of patients, exacerbated by the pandemic.