Covid-19: Over half of Category 4, 5 patients continue to show symptoms for 12 weeks or more, says MOH

PUTRAJAYA: More than half of Category 4 and 5 Covid-19 patients suffer from post-Covid syndrome or “long Covid”, a Health Ministry study has shown.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a clinical study conducted by the ministry on 1, 004 category 4 and 5 Covid-19 patients, 66% of them were found to have “long Covid”.