Scientists researching the effects of long Covid have discovered hair loss and a reduced sex drive as two new symptoms of the virus.
The symptoms were discovered through a study at the University of Birmingham, where researchers analysed electronic health records of 2.4 million Brits including 486,000 who had caught Covid. The most common symptoms found by the study included the more widely known loss of smell, shortness of breath and chest pain, while others included loss of libido and hair, The Mirror reports .
With the Office for National Statistics estimating that two million people in the UK have had long Covid, studies are ongoing to understand how the virus can cause symptoms to last several weeks or months in some cases. An expert behind the new study said the findings confirm that the signs of long Covid are “extremely broad”.
