Illnesses can have different effects on your body

Sometimes, you may still have some symptoms of an illness after it has ended and the infection has gone. For example, some people that have had COVID-19 experience symptoms for some weeks after having the infection.

You may hear people call this ‘Long COVID’ or ‘Post COVID’. It is normal to take a while to get back to feeling your usual self- up to 4 weeks and even up to 12.

But if you are still feeling unwell after 12 weeks, this is when we start to think about Long Covid.