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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Luke O'Reilly & Lucy Skoulding

Warning over new Covid symptom affecting memory for months after recovery

A mild case of Covid can cause attention and memory problems for months after recovery, new research suggests.

The findings, reported by researchers from Oxford University, showed that people who had mild Covid infection but did not report long-Covid symptoms still had worse attention and memory for up to six to nine months.

Previous studies have shown that long-Covid sufferers experience difficulties maintaining attention, which is known as "brain fog".

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