Nine in ten recovered COVID-19 patients experience side-effects - study

FILE PHOTO: Patients who recovered from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) sit in wheelchairs after being released from the "Tierra y Libertad" public hospital in Monterrey, Mexico July 24, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

SEOUL (Reuters) - Nine in ten coronavirus patients reported experiencing side-effects such as fatigue, psychological after-effects and loss of smell and taste after they recovered from the disease, according to a preliminary study by South Korea.

The research comes as the global death toll from COVID-19 passed 1 million on Tuesday, a grim milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed the way people live.