People bedridden for at least seven days with COVID-19 showed severe physical symptoms of the disease, persisting for up to two years after diagnosis, new research in The Lancet Regional Health-Europe journal has found.

These people showed 37 per cent higher chronic symptoms associated with long COVID such as shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, headaches and fatigue than those not diagnosed with the disease, a team with researchers from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, found.