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Liverpool Echo
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Kate Lally

27 symptoms from headaches to joint pain that could mean you have long covid

A new list of long covid symptoms has been revealed by the NHS, including the most common signs such as breathlessness and weight loss.

It comes as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) disclosed in November that an estimated 2.1 million people in the UK were experiencing self-reported long covid symptoms.

Long covid is defined by the ONS as symptoms continuing for more than four weeks after the coronavirus infection that cannot be explained by another reason, such as a separate medical condition.

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