Coronavirus: 'Long Covid' patients need treatment programme, doctors say
Keen cyclists Meredith and Elly, who was training for a marathon, say they're still suffering from Covid-19 symptoms months after getting it
He added that data from the app showed around 60,000 people have been ill for more than three months.The government moved away from community testing on 12 March, instead only testing those admitted to hospital.Elly MacDonald, 37, from Surbiton, was training for the London Marathon when she first developed what she believes were Covid symptoms on 21 March.
File on 4 asked all 212 Clinical Commissioning Groups and health boards across the UK whether they had set up post-Covid clinics for patients who were not admitted hospital with the virus - but did not necessarily receive a positive test result. She said:"For people who have never been to hospital, nobody's looked properly at their lungs, their hearts and so on.The UK government and NHS England say there will be new and strengthened rehab centres and community services in every part of the country.
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